ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,806, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nobel Biocare Services AG (Kloten, Switzerland).
"Dental component with an interface" was invented by Jorg Weitzel (Rielasingen-Worblingen, Germany), Ramadan Abazi (Zurich) and Oliver Bill (Olten, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses above-noted objectives by providing a dental component that includes a coronal end, an apical end, and a longitudinal axis extending between the coronal end and the apical end. The dental component also includes an interface for assembly to another dental component, the interface includes at least one indexing section for rotati...