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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2020
Dentsply Sirona Inc., York, PA (US);
Sirona Dental Systems Gmbh, Bensheim, DE;
Andreas Schaefer, Rimbach, DE;
Oliver Nowarra, Leimen, DE;
Michael Turzer, Kolmbach, DE;
Peter Fornoff, Oberkainsbach, DE;
Dentsply Sirona Inc., York, PA (US);
Abstract
A dental tool () for use in a dental CNC milling/grinding machine for machining a dental restoration from a workpiece (), the dental tool () has a shaft (). The dental tool includes a miniaturized RFID tag () which is arranged in front of the back end () of the shaft (). A dental CNC milling/grinding machine () is also disclosed and has a machine compartment () including one or more carriage units () each adapted to exchangeably receive and drive one or more dental tools () for machining a dental restoration from a workpiece (); one or more transceiver units () each adapted to read and/or write the miniaturized RFID tag () of a dental tool (); and a control unit adapted to control the transceiver units (), and the carriage units () based on the information read from the miniaturized RFID tags ().