US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 28 for "Oral appliance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,813, issued on July 28, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Oral appliance" was invented by Toru Shimuta (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Jun Takagi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tomoki Takahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet-shaped oral appliance is provided that is detachably attached to an oral body device and includes a functional portion with a sensor unit that acquires information in an oral cavity and an energy irradiation unit that radiates energy into the oral cavity, an electrical connection portion, and a wiring portion that connects at least one of the sensor unit and the energy i...