US Patent Issued to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Sept. 8 for "Zirconia surface treatment method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,976, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Zirconia surface treatment method" was invented by Hee-Kyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chul-Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Un Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung-Joo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yu-Kwon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a method for treating the surface of 1-5 mol % (preferably, 3 mol %) yttria stabilized zirconia (1-5 mol % (3 mol %) yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal; 3Y-TZP), which is suitable for dental use, with plas...