ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,483, issued on Aug. 25.
"Method, system, and computer program for generating 3D models of dentures in occlusion conditions" was invented by Xavier Ripoche (Marne la Vallee, France), Pascal Narcisse (Marne la Vallee, France), Luc Gillibert (Emerainville, France) and Jean-Pascal Jacob (Marne la Vallee, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments of the invention, it is provided a method of generating a 3D model of a first denture and of a second denture comprising: x-ray scanning the first and the second dentures in occlusion conditions to obtain a set of data; generating, from the obtained set of data, a 3D ima...