US Patent Issued to Nobel Biocare Services on Dec. 9 for "Dental components and methods to align dental components" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,052, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nobel Biocare Services AG (Kloten, Switzerland).

"Dental components and methods to align dental components" was invented by Jorg Weitzel (Rielasingen-Worblingen, Germany), Urs Weber (Olten, Switzerland), Ibrahim Unal (Effretikon, Switzerland) and Marcel Siegfried (Glattpark, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be configured to record a position and orientation of a dental component. The system can include a coping and a replica. The coping can include an anti/rotational feature that is configured to mate with an anti-rotational feature of a dental component. The coping can als...