US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on June 24 for "Dental crown having a highly retentive coating and method for making the same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,878, issued on June 24, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Dental crown having a highly retentive coating and method for making the same" was invented by Bruce R. Broyles (Oakdale, Minn.) and Afshin Falsafi (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dental crowns and methods of making the same. The dental crown may include a metal shell shaped to cover a portion of a tooth of a patient; a coating retention metal layer diffusion bonded to the metal shell, wherein an interface between the coating retention layer and the metal shell comprises a plurality of interstitial regions; and a composi...