ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,804, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG HOUSEHOLD & HEALTH CARE LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Patch attachable to teeth" was invented by Yong-Beom Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Seong-Eun Bang (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-Hyun Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and So-Ra Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a patch attachable to the occlusal plane of posterior teeth, which includes: a drug layer; a backing layer in contact with the drug layer; and a removable part in contact with the backing layer. The patch can be provided as a single-sided type or a double-sided type. It may also be provided as a ...