US Patent Issued to INSTITUT STRAUMANN on July 14 for "Ceramic dental implant" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,265, issued on July 14, was assigned to INSTITUT STRAUMANN AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Ceramic dental implant" was invented by Christian Paatz (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic dental implant for implantation into a jaw bone extending from an apical end to a coronal end. The implant has a blind bore open towards the coronal end and extends towards the apical end along a central longitudinal axis. The blind bore includes a threaded section having a base surface where a thread protrudes radially inwards. The threaded section includes a main portion, wherein the maximum thread radius remains constant along the p...