ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,913, issued on March 17, was assigned to Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw, Poland).

"Bioactive intraosseous dental implant" was invented by Bartlomiej Wysocki (Warsaw, Poland), Agnieszka Chmielewska (Chojnow, Poland), Jaroslaw Mizera (Warsaw, Poland), Piotr Wychowanski (Warsaw, Poland) and Wojciech Swieszkowski (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraosseous dental implant for the application of biologically active agents directly to the surrounding soft tissues and bone tissue, and their substitutes, is described. The implant enables the measurement of the newly formed or lost bone tissue volume immediately adjacent t...