US Patent Issued to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics on July 21 for "Method and composition to produce high translucency dental ceramics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,641, issued on July 21, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Method and composition to produce high translucency dental ceramics" was invented by May Yun Hsuan Lin (Arcadia, Calif.), Yan Yang (Irvine, Calif.), Sreeram Balasubramanian (Irvine, Calif.), Hugo Gonzalez (Whittier, Calif.) and Dimple Pradhan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Translucency of a yttria-stabilized zirconia ceramic is improved to achieve even higher translucency than what is currently offered on the market, without greatly altering its mechanical properties. The enhancement is done by incorporating magne...