ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,199, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ivoclar Vivadent AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Manufacturing method for a dental object" was invented by Alen Frey (Feldkirch, Austria), Hendrik John (Buchs, Switzerland), Andreas Schulke (Grabs, Switzerland) and Katja Honow (Gamprin, Liechtenstein).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method for a dental object, including the steps of generating (S101) a digital dental object in a coordinate system describing a shape of the dental object to be manufactured; rotating (S102) the spatial orientation of the digital dental object in the coordinate system based on a digital reference object ...