US Patent Issued to Odne on Jan. 13 for "Highly flowable prepolymer composition of high radiopacity allowing for high depth photopolymerization" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,317, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Odne AG (Dubendorf, Switzerland).

"Highly flowable prepolymer composition of high radiopacity allowing for high depth photopolymerization" was invented by Mark Bispinghoff (Zurich), Andreas Schmocker (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Aaron Johnson (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a highly flowable crosslinkable medical or dental composition comprising a crosslinkable compound, a polymerization initiator and a heterogeneous radiopacifier. Also described is a crosslinked polymer composition obtainable by crosslinking said highly flowable, crosslinkable me...