ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,219, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Internal sinus lifting drill set" was invented by Khalid Abdullah Alruhaimi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for performing internal maxillary sinus lift procedures where the system and method employs a set of sequentially deployed surgical drill bits to be used in conjunction with a dental implant surgical kit for performing internal maxillary sinus lift procedures in the dental implant surgical situations where the sub-antral bone height is not adequate to host an implant."

The patent was filed ...