ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,820, issued on June 3, was assigned to IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein) and IO TECH GROUP LTD. (London).

"Process and material for producing 3D objects by energy-pulse-induced transfer printing" was invented by Lorenz Josef Bonderer (Sargans, Switzerland), Jurgen Laubersheimer (Buch, Switzerland), Wolfgang Wachter (Schaan, Liechtenstein) and Michael Zenou (Hasmonaim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a material for use as construction material for energy-pulse-induced transfer printing, which contains (a) at least one polymerizable binder, (b) at least one volume expansion component, (c) at leas...