US Patent Issued to Ivoclar Vivadent on July 28 for "Forming apparatus for a dental object" (Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,955, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ivoclar Vivadent AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Forming apparatus for a dental object" was invented by Markus Rampf (Seewis Dorf, Switzerland), Marc Dittmer (Feldkirch, Austria), Christian Niedrig (Ruthi, Switzerland) and Christian Ritzberger (Grabs, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forming system (100) for a dental object (101), having a forming apparatus (127) for producing a predetermined spatial shape of the dental object (101); and a radiation source (105) for emitting radiation having a wavelength shorter than 350 nm onto the material (129) of the dental object (101)."

The pate...