US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on Sept. 8 for "Ultrasonic scaler having an ozonated water system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,141, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Ultrasonic scaler having an ozonated water system" was invented by Kenneth R. Guaragno (Spring Grove, Pa.), Miles Hember (Cambridge, Great Britain), Roger Millington (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Carl Hewett (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Samuel Whittome (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handpiece (108) of an ultrasonic scaler equipped with a closed system water delivery and an integrated in-line divided electrolytic cell (106) for generating ozone, one or more gas separators (116a, 116b), in-line dissolved gas monitoring and c...