US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on Nov. 3 for "Optimization of dose distribution in 3D printing by means of a neural network" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,760, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Optimization of dose distribution in 3D printing by means of a neural network" was invented by Christian Stahl (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of printing a component by using 3D printer, including: inputting a desired dose distribution in terms of the amount of UV light absorbed as a function of location within the component to be printed into a neural network by CAD/CAM software; calculation of the exposure strategy including the exposure data by means of the neural network, which optimally maps the specified desired dose distributi...