ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,125, issued on July 8, was assigned to TRI Dental Implants Int. AG (Huenenberg, Switzerland).
"Dental implant and dental prosthesis" was invented by Sandro Venanzoni (Zurich, Switzerland), Rafael Perez (Freiburg, Germany), Holger Kast (Huenenberg, Switzerland) and Ronald Jung (Herrliberg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental implant having an implant body having on an outer side an external thread for fastening the dental implant to a jaw bone and having an opening extending along a longitudinal axis of the dental implant. The opening comprises an internal thread for fastening a superstructure to the dental implant. The...