ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,462, issued on April 14, was assigned to TRIMAG SYSTEM S.L. (Lleida, Spain).

"Device for making, duplicating and fixing dental models in articulator" was invented by Ramon Farre Berga (Lleida, Spain) and Oriol Farre Berga (Lleida, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for making, duplicating and fixing dental models in articulator, using dental replicas (19) of plaster or other material with bases (20) for the manufacture of dental models (18). The device incorporates at least three pins (3) that have elements to be embedded in the bases (20) in charge of said pins (3) for positioning and fixing the dental models (18) to pla...