US Patent Issued to SHOFU on May 13 for "Ceramic mill blank for dental cutting and machining" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,802, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHOFU INC. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Ceramic mill blank for dental cutting and machining" was invented by Shuhei Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Satoshi Fujiwara (Kyoto, Japan) and Munehira Takenaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a ceramic mill blank for dental cutting and machining in which cracks or chips are not caused on the outer edge of the ceramic mill blank even if attaching to and detaching from a dental milling machine are repeated and it is possible to machine the vicinity of the outer edge of the ceramic mill blank.To provide a ceramic mill blank for dental cutting and mach...