US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on Feb. 24 for "Method of determining the orientation of a three-dimensional model for additive manufacturing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,489, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Method of determining the orientation of a three-dimensional model for additive manufacturing" was invented by Christian Stahl (Darmstadt, Germany) and Daniel Weiss (Heddesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the orientation of a 3D Model to be generated by an additive manufacturing apparatus having a vat for holding photocurable material; and a platform for holding the 3D object corresponding to the 3D model. The platform is relatively movable with respect to the vat and the method includes a step of defining the surface geomet...