US Patent Issued to Smart Denture Conversions on June 3 for "Screw-attached pick-up dental coping system and methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,265, issued on June 3, was assigned to Smart Denture Conversions LLC (Apex, N.C.).

"Screw-attached pick-up dental coping system and methods" was invented by Brandon Dale Kofford (Apex, N.C.) and Charles Albert Rudisill (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temporary alignment system and method for holding a dental coping to an implant abutment using the same threads in the abutment that are used for definitive attachment are disclosed. The disclosed temporary fasteners initially orient and hold a coping against an abutment with a force along the same axis as the semi-definitive screw. The aligned coping can be picked-up in a cl...