US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on March 3 for "Smart dental implant system for ambulatory dental care" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,480, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Philadelphia).

"Smart dental implant system for ambulatory dental care" was invented by Geelsu Hwang (Wynnewood, Pa.), Hye-Eun Kim (Philadelphia), Jonathan Korostoff (Philadelphia) and Albert Kim (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart dental implant systems and methods for ambulatory dental care are provided. In some embodiments, the disclosed subject matter includes a crown, adapted to mimic a patient's anatomy and location of the smart dental implant ...