US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Oct. 7 for "Dental light polymerization device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,729, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Dental light polymerization device" was invented by Rudolf Schmid (Eichenau, Germany), Korbinian Gerlach (Gauting, Germany), Stefan K. Welker (Geltendorf, Germany) and Angelika Hofmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental light polymerization device has an intra-oral tip portion and a handle portion. The dental light polymerization device has a polymerization light source and a light mixing element. The polymerization light source has a first LED exhibiting a first light emission peak wavelength and a second LED exhibiting a se...