ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,947, issued on July 28, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
"Dental hand tool having different implements for retrieving material from a cavity located in a patient's tooth" was invented by Mohammed Abdullah Alshehri (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Saeed Alghamdi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Adnan Mohammed Shouki Bazarbashi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental apparatus includes a handle, a first dental implement and a second dental implement. The first and second dental implements extend from different portions of a body of the handle. The first dental implement may include an elongat...