US Patent Issued to STRAUMANN HOLDING on Jan. 13 for "Dental implant having a topographic surface" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,210, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STRAUMANN HOLDING AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Dental implant having a topographic surface" was invented by Frank Homann (Munich) and Philippe Habersetzer (Rixheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental implant having a surface made of a ceramic material. At least a part of the surface includes recesses and cavities formed by removal of discrete grains having an average grain size from 0.1 micro metre to 0.6 micro metre and/or agglomerates of these grains from the ceramic material."

The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2020, under Application No. 16/784,785.

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