US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Oct. 6 for "Subgingival cleaning" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,805, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Subgingival cleaning" was invented by Bart Gottenbos (Budel, Netherlands) and Manu Goudar (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subgingival cleaning system (10) for cleaning a subgingival region such as a periodontal pocket is disclosed. The system comprises a liquid flow source (60) for producing a liquid flow and a gas flow source (70) for producing a gas flow. Each of the liquid flow source and the gas flow source are coupled to a nozzle arrangement (40) arranged to be aimed at a subgingival region to be cleaned, the nozzle...