ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,592, issued on April 15, was assigned to Prima Dental Manufacturing Ltd. (Gloucestershire, Great Britain).
"Manufacture of a dental tool" was invented by Wan Tsin Goh (Bristol, Great Britain) and Lukasz Dabrowski (Gloucestershire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a dental or medical tool the method comprising the steps of positioning a pre-fluted blank 14 including a stem 24 and a shank 22 within a machine 30, using a probe to identify a position and/or an orientation of at least one flute 26 of the pre-fluted blank 14 and/or the position and/or orientation of an orientation indicator 28 of the p...