ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,978, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BIOM LLC (Sheridan, Wyo.).

"Expandable dental floss having filaments infused with Nigella sativa and antiseptic and method of forming" was invented by Ilon Choai (Sheridan, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable dental floss includes a plurality of texturized threads twisted together forming a floss element. Each texturized thread includes a plurality of pre-oriented yarn (POY) filaments. A first set of texturized threads has the plurality of POY filaments infused with Nigella sativa. A second set of the texturized threads has the plurality of POY filaments infused with an antiseptic...