ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- 3M Innovative Properties, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been assigned a patent (No. 9,943,467, initially filed Dec. 22, 2016) developed by three co-inventors for a "coated dental articles and related methods of manufacture." The co-inventors are Geoffrey P. Morris, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, William E. Wyllie II, Woodbury, Minnesota, and Steven D. Theiss, Woodbury, Minnesota.

The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars . . .