US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus and method for tooth pulp vitality detection" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,838, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore).

"Apparatus and method for tooth pulp vitality detection" was invented by Cha-Min Tang (Wayne, Pa.) and Joseph Schmitt (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus provided for detecting tooth pulp vitality includes a handle, a pivot and a caliper. A pair of fiber optic lines pass through an interior of the handle, the pivot and the caliper. One of the fiber optic lines is a source line with a connector at an end of the source line and another of the fiber optic lines is a detector line with a connector at an end of the detector l...