ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,011, issued on July 29, was assigned to Perceptive Technologies Inc. (Boston).
"Automated dental drill" was invented by Christopher John Ciriello (Castlegar, Canada), James Jackson (Victoria, Canada), Nathan John Muller (Victoria, Canada) and Brian Edward King (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated dental drill includes an end effector, including a dental tool for disposition at least partially in a patient's mouth and to perform an operation on a tooth. A tooth clamp releasably rigidly attaches to at least one tooth. A drive assembly is controlled by a processor and positions the end effector with a first at ...