US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Feb. 10 for "Dental appliance with functional structures and transfer articles used in forming such appliances" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,190, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Dental appliance with functional structures and transfer articles used in forming such appliances" was invented by Bhaskar V. Velamakanni (Woodbury, Minn.), Kevin W. Gotrik (Hudson, Wis.), Kevin T. Reddy (Minneapolis), Scott J. Jones (Woodbury, Minn.), Matthew S. Stay (Bloomington, Minn.), Matthew R.D. Smith (Woodbury, Minn.), Yizhong Wang (Woodbury, Minn.), Mikhail L. Pekurovsky (Bloomington, Minn.) and Narina Y. Stepanova (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer article includes an acrylate layer releasable from a re...