US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on May 12 for "Apparatus and method for customized shaping of orthodontic archwires and other medical devices" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,272, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Apparatus and method for customized shaping of orthodontic archwires and other medical devices" was invented by Friedrich Riemeier (Berlin), Werner Butscher (Berlin), Frank Witte (Berlin), Christoph Radinger (Teltow, Germany), Andrew Cordell (McKinney, Texas) and Rohit Sachdeva (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for bending or shaping orthodontic archwires of other medical devices into a complex, patient individual shape is described. The apparatus comprises of two moveable, compact, manipulators with, in total, at least one rev...