US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 1 for "Oral tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,158, issued on July 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Oral tool" was invented by Tomoki Takahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Jun Takagi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroaki Togashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hiroki Achiwa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oral tool is provided that includes a body and a measurement unit. The measurement unit is disposed in a movable configuration with respect to the body, and includes a sensor unit at an end opposite to an end where the body is disposed. The sensor unit is constructed to be inserted into a mouth. The end of the measurement unit opposite to the en...