US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Property on Dec. 9 for "3D-printed dental restoration precursor with support element and process of production" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,047, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Property Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"3D-printed dental restoration precursor with support element and process of production" was invented by Andreas G. Herrmann (Munich), Malte Korten (Moorenweis, Germany), Bastian P. Kirchner (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany), Daniel D. Oberpertinger (Herrsching, Germany), Philipp Jurgen Semmler (Ahrensburg, Germany), Anja Friedrich (UnterschleiBheim, Germany) and Michaela Urban (Seefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a 3d-printed dental restoration precursor, a 3d-printed array comprising a 3d-printed dental resto...