ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,973, issued on Oct. 20.
"Jaw implant" was invented by Joachim Brinkmeier (Merzhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jaw implant (1) having at least one approximately U-shaped hole strip (2), which carries fixing holes (3) spaced apart from one another. In the jaw implant (1), in the space between adjacent fixing holes (3) there are provided cross-sectional weaknesses (4) for cutting the at least one hole strip (2) to length. The at least one hole strip (2) has, in a partial region (8) situated at a distance from the free ends (6, 7) of this hole strip (2), in the region of every fixing hole (3) having an internal screw thr...