US Patent Issued to Fuzhou Rick Brown Biomaterials on Sept. 15 for "Glass-ceramic dental prosthesis and method for preparing the same, method for reinforcing glass or glass-ceramics, and alkaline reinforcing paste" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,350, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Fuzhou Rick Brown Biomaterials Co. Ltd. (Fuzhou, China).

"Glass-ceramic dental prosthesis and method for preparing the same, method for reinforcing glass or glass-ceramics, and alkaline reinforcing paste" was invented by Zhongzhi Tang (Fuzhou, China) and Honglin Liu (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a glass-ceramic dental prosthesis and a method for preparing the same. The glass-ceramic dental prosthesis has a metal ion-reinforced surface. An area of the metal ion-reinforced surface is smaller than an entire surface area of the glass-ceramic denta...