US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on April 22 for "Device for separating a deep-drawn jaw-spanning dental apparatus of thermoform film" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,532, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Device for separating a deep-drawn jaw-spanning dental apparatus of thermoform film" was invented by Hans-Christian Schneider (Einhausen, Germany) and Peter Burger (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for separating a deep-drawn jaw-spanning dental apparatus such as an aligner or a bite splint of thermoform film that includes: a separating element for thermally separating the deep-drawn thermoform film and simultaneously refining the separated deep-drawn thermoform film; a heating means for regulating the heating of the separating element...