US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on July 29 for "Method of planning free-form tool paths for simultaneous two-sided machining with kinematic axis coupling" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,028, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Method of planning free-form tool paths for simultaneous two-sided machining with kinematic axis coupling" was invented by Peter Burger (Bensheim, Germany) and Oliver Nowarra (Leimen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of planning of the shapes of free-form tool paths (P) for simultaneous two-sided machining of a dental restoration (1) having an individual free-form target geometry from a workpiece (2) by using a dental tool machine (3) having at least two tool spindles each having at least one tool (4) arranged on a different...