US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on March 4 for "Removable dental appliance with gingival ridges" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,507, issued on March 4, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Removable dental appliance with gingival ridges" was invented by Michael K. Domroese (Woodbury, Minn.), David K. Cinader Jr. (Woodbury, Minn.), Richard E. Raby (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and James D. Hansen (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example removable dental appliance includes an appliance body configured to at least partially surround a plurality of teeth of a dental arch of a patient. The appliance body includes a shell shaped to engage a tooth in an initial position and a gingival ridge extending from a mesial...