US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on Oct. 28 for "Device for receiving and fixing the component carrier of a 3D printer by utilitizing existing axes of motion" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,098, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Device for receiving and fixing the component carrier of a 3D printer by utilitizing existing axes of motion" was invented by Bernhard Kaufmann (Heppenheim, Germany), Thomas Hasenzahl (Darmstadt, Germany) and Tobias Schulz (Speyer, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D printer comprising a resin vat, a component carrier, a transport box for depositing the component carrier, a transport device for removing the component carrier from the transport box and transporting it into the resin vat, and for moving the component carrier downward and upward in the re...