US Patent Issued to Ivoclar Vivadent on April 21 for "Method of producing a dental restoration" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,236, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ivoclar Vivadent AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Method of producing a dental restoration" was invented by Eser Atilim (Lindau, Germany) and Hendrik John (Buchs, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a dental restoration (100), including the steps of calculating (S101) a pressure distribution (101) on the oral mucosa (105) through the dental restoration (100) based on a three-dimensional data set (103-DS) of the dental restoration (100) and a three-dimensional data set (103-MS) of the oral mucosa (105); and determining (S102) a spatial region (107) for an elastic produ...