ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,465, issued on April 14.
"Tooth root canal irrigation assembly for cleaning tooth root canals" was invented by Dennis Manuel Kohrer (Neuss, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A root canal irrigation assembly, comprising a vacuum device, a suction element having an elongate suction tip, and a sonic device having a sonic handpiece for introducing sonic vibrations into the suction element and thus causing the suction tip to vibrate, wherein the rear end of the suction element is connected to the vacuum device such that an irrigation fluid containing tissue residues and/or bacteria can be suctioned out of a root canal. The suction e...