ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,726, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ivoclar Vivadent AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Method for producing a dental object" was invented by Clemens Andreas Hafele (Feldkirch, Austria), Christoph Haydl (Rheineck, Switzerland), Pascal Scherrer (Chur, Switzerland) and Rebecca Russ (Dafins, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of producing a dental object (100), comprising the step of producing a support structure (101) on the dental object (100) having a predetermined breaking point (103) arranged such that a residual portion (105) of the support structure (101) remains on the dental object (100...