US Patent Issued to SEPTODONT OU SEPTODONT SAS OU SPECIALITES SEPTODONT on Dec. 30 for "Non-breaking filament for shaping bone and dental substitutes" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,347, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SEPTODONT OU SEPTODONT SAS OU SPECIALITES SEPTODONT (Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, France).

"Non-breaking filament for shaping bone and dental substitutes" was invented by Gilles Richard (Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, France) and Dai Pham (Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials for additive manufacturing. More precisely, a non-breaking filament, preferably for 3D printing bone substitutes. The filament includes 50% to 99% in weight to the total weight of the filament (w/w) of a polymeric matrix and 1% to 50% w/w of tricalcium silicate. Also, a method and composition for prepar...