ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,873, issued on May 20, was assigned to INSTITUT STRAUMANN AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Functionalized ceramic article" was invented by Zoe Koelbing (Basel, Switzerland), Philippe Chavanne (Holstein, Switzerland), Sven Simeunovic (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Marc Stephan (Lorrach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for additive manufacturing of a position sensitive colored ceramic article comprising: a) providing at least one flowable ceramic component; b) forming a green body by sequential deposition of the ceramic component provided in step a) and optionally a support material not intended...