ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,941, issued on July 7, was assigned to Alfa-Gate Mazen Ltd. (Kfar Qara, Israel).
"Dental implant made of a metal or a metal alloy" was invented by Tanja Grobecker-Karl (Homburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dental implant (1) for anchoring of a dental prosthesis, wherein the dental implant (1) has a core (10) and an external thread (3) surrounding the core (10), wherein the dental implant (1) has an apical end (11) and a cervical end (12) to be screwed by means of the external thread (3) with the apical end (11) first into a recess formed in a jaw bone and to anchor the dental prosthesis at the cervical end (12), wherein the...