ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,976, issued on Oct. 20.
"Method of generating manufacturing parameters during a dental procedure for a dental prosthesis" was invented by Adam Brian Nulty (Bury, Great Britain) and Quintus Van Tonder (Norwich, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of generating manufacturing parameters during a dental procedure to construct a dental prosthesis, the method comprising the steps of: a) intra-orally scanning a patient to generate intra-oral data; b) extra-orally scanning the patient during a mandibular motion to generate dynamic extra-oral maxillofacial data; c) resolving the intra-oral da...