US Patent Issued to BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITESI on April 14 for "Production of dental floss from wood fibers" (Turkish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,464, issued on April 14, was assigned to BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"Production of dental floss from wood fibers" was invented by Caglar Sivri (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Celluloses are taken from industrial trees by means of chemical pulp processing method which does not give damage to environment, and turned into fiber form, and fibers of industrial trees are turned into dental floss form. As said industrial tree; a kind of tree selected from beech tree, birch tree, poplar tree, elm and oak tree is used."

The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2021, under Application No. 18/280,274.

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