US Patent Issued to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus and methods for pressure casting using an indirect feed" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,563, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for pressure casting using an indirect feed" was invented by Hugo Gonzalez (Whittier, Calif.), Mathew Campbell (Lake Elsinore, Calif.), Alonso E. Delgado (Long Beach, Calif.) and Sreeram Balasubramanian (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to an apparatus comprising a manifold removably coupled to a mold, wherein ceramic slurry is indirectly fed into the cavity of the mold. More specifically, ceramic slurry is directly fed into an exterior portion of the mold and subsequ...