ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,170, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MJP Elite Studios Ltd. (Rippon, Great Britain).
"Dental bar" was invented by Mark Jerome Price (Ripon, Great Britain) and Steven William Campbell (Ripon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental bar is disclosed for accurately determining the separation and relative orientation of two coping cylinders projecting from dental implants in a patients mouth to receive a prosthesis. The dental bar comprises two sockets, for fitting over and securing to the two coping cylinders, connected to one another by a limb formed of telescopically collapsible sections. The telescoped ections of the...