ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,043, issued on June 24, was assigned to Merz Dental GmbH (Lutjenburg, Germany).
"Curable radiopaque substance" was invented by Sebastian Pflesser (Kiel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable and radiopaque substance, a material that can be produced from same via polymerisation, a method for producing the curable substance and the cured material, and the use of the curable substance or the cured material are disclosed. The curable substance or the cured material can be used in, inter alia, orthopaedics as so-called bone cement, in particular as a tooth filling material, dental cement, dental lining material, flowable compos...