ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,622, issued on July 21.
"Dental evacuation tip with mount for dental mouth mirror" was invented by Thad Pierce Johnston (Gastonia, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental evacuation tip has a body defining an interior passageway extending along a length of the body, and proximal and distal openings to the interior passageway. The proximal and distal openings are spaced apart from one another along the length of the body. The dental evacuation tip is configured so that a mirror apparatus can be removably connected to the dental evacuation tip so that at least a portion of a rod of the mirror apparatus is positioned in the interio...