US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on June 23 for "Face shield and face mask protection system" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,209, issued on June 23, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Face shield and face mask protection system" was invented by Abeer ElSayed Elembaby (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a dental procedure safety device including a face mask and a face shield attached to each other to form a modified face mask shield device, where the face shield overlaps in front of the face mask. The device further includes a dental dam frame including a plurality of nibs projecting outwardly from an outer perimeter of the dental dam frame for attachment of a dent...