US Patent Issued to Ivoclar Vivadent on May 26 for "Dental furnace and procedures for the operation of a dental furnace" (Austrian, Liechtensteiner, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,240, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ivoclar Vivadent AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Dental furnace and procedures for the operation of a dental furnace" was invented by Manuel Schlegel (Mels, Switzerland), Martin Vogt (Balzers, Liechtenstein) and Dominik Muller (Altach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental furnace, in particular for the pre-drying of dental restoration parts or for the debinding of dental restoration parts, with a heating chamber and at least one electric heating element, a power control device for the heating element, a temperature detection device with which the temperature in the heating chamber can be ...