ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,499, issued on March 4, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).
"Method of manufacturing a dental restoration" was invented by Daniel Weiss (Heddesheim, Germany), Oliver Nowarra (Leimen, Germany) and Peter Fornoff (Reichelsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a dental restoration including a construction step (S2) of preparing construction data for a dental tool machine for machining the dental restoration from a workpiece. The construction data defines at least the geometry of the dental restoration within the workpiece. The method includes a starting step (S3) of starting machining of the...