US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on Sept. 30 for "Dental prosthesis molding block and method for producing a dental prosthesis part from the dental prosthesis molding block" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,002, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Dental prosthesis molding block and method for producing a dental prosthesis part from the dental prosthesis molding block" was invented by Sascha Schneider (Muhltal, Germany) and Peter Fornoff (Reichelsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a dental prosthesis molding block for producing a dental prosthesis part. The block comprises an inner material that is at least partially surrounded by an outer material, the hardness of which differs from the hardness of the inner material. The inner material forms part of a first...