US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 31 for "High-resolution ultrasonography of gingival biomarkers for periodontal diagnosis in healthy and diseased subjects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,888, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"High-resolution ultrasonography of gingival biomarkers for periodontal diagnosis in healthy and diseased subjects" was invented by Jesse Vincent Jokerst (La Jolla, Calif.), Colman Arthur Moore (La Jolla, Calif.) and Casey Chen (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring periodontal disease and treating diseases associated therewith includes: obtaining B-mode ultrasound images of a dentition and periodontium of a patient; identifying gingival margin (GM), alveolar bone crest (ABC), cementoenamel junction (CE...