MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617070533 A) filed by Tosoh Corporation on June 05, 2026, for Dental Blank And Method For Recovering Scraps From Dental Blanks.
Inventors include Todoko Shigehisa; and Machida Kairi.
The application for the patent was published on July 03, 2026, under issue no. 27/2026.
Abstract: Provided are a dental blank and a method for recovering scrap material of a dental blank described below, the dental blank and the method enabling efficient and smooth recovery of dental blank scrap material generated through machining, and regeneration through horizontal recycling. This dental blank comprises an information tag attached thereto that includes at least specific information associated with material information, the specific information being information that has been agreed upon between a manufacturer of dental blank raw material and a manufacturer of the dental blank. The information tag is an information medium from which the specific information is read when scrap material of the dental blank is recovered. This method for recovering scrap material from a dental blank comprises: a recovery step for recovering scrap material, generated through machining of a dental blank, from a machining operator; and a selection step for selecting specific scrap material for which specific information, associated with material information of the dental blank and agreed upon between a manufacturer of the dental blank raw material and a manufacturer of the dental blank, can be read from the information tag attached to the scrap material.
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