US Patent Issued to Ivoclar Vivadent on Feb. 10 for "Method for setting a drop shape in a printing process" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,985, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ivoclar Vivadent AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Method for setting a drop shape in a printing process" was invented by Nicola Bitar (Montlingen, Switzerland), Jonas Reinhardt (Igis, Switzerland), Christian Niedrig (Azmoos, Switzerland) and Johannes Renner (Ostermundigen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for setting a drop shape in a printing process, including the steps of controlling (S101) a piezo element of a printing nozzle by a first voltage profile; detecting (S102) an electric current value averaged over the first voltage profile or a sound amplitude averaged over the fi...