US Patent Issued to KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL on March 11 for "Workpiece unit and method of producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,906, issued on March 11, was assigned to KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Workpiece unit and method of producing same" was invented by Yoshihisa Ito (Miyoshi, Japan) and Tetsuo Yamada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a workpiece unit in which a holding member is attached to a workpiece body without use of an adhesive, and a method of producing the unit. The workpiece unit comprises a workpiece body, and a holding member which is arranged at at least a part of an outer circumferential portion of the workpiece body and directly contacts with at least a part of the outer circumferential portio...