ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,459, issued on June 3, was assigned to VOCO GMBH (Cuxhaven, Germany).
"Thermoactive dental composite composition" was invented by Christoph Hahn (Cuxhaven, Germany), Gerrit Lubbe (Cuxhaven, Germany), Reinhard Maletz (Cuxhaven, Germany) and Manfred Thomas Plaumann (Cuxhaven, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to dental, light-curable, one-component composite compositions comprising (A) monomers, (B) fillers, and (C) initiators, the viscosity Eta20 of which at 20deg C. is greater than 400 Pa*s, preferably greater than 800 Pa*s and more preferably greater than 1200 Pa*s, and the viscosity Eta50 of which ...