US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Feb. 4 for "Glazing composition for a dental zirconia article, process of sintering and kit of parts" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,060, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Glazing composition for a dental zirconia article, process of sintering and kit of parts" was invented by Michael Jahns (Gilching, Germany), Jacqueline C. Rolf (River Falls, Wis.), Martin Goetzinger (Pflugdorf, Germany) and Holger Hauptmann (Sindelsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a glazing composition suitable for glazing the surface a dental zirconia article. The glazing composition comprises a liquid, glass particles, and hydrophilic silica nano-particles. The invention also relates to a process for sin...