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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1976
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
William G McGuffin, Willingboro, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128 / ; 32 4 / ; 32 57 ; 3317 / ; 128 / ;
Abstract
A method and device for measuring the length of a root canal of a tooth in which a reference signal obtained by placing an electrode or terminal of an oscillator in the gingival tissue and a signal obtained by inserting an electrode or terminal of an oscillator into the root canal are phase locked and mixed in a product detector to produce an electrical quantity indicative of the length of the root canal.