ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,746, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to 3Shape A/S (Kobenhavn K, Denmark).

"Integration for local manufacturing of dental products" was invented by Marat Yuldashev (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Andreea Nicoleta Stefan (Copenhagen K, Denmark) and Alexandr Iotko (Copenhagen K, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a dental component in a dental clinic or laboratory, the method including setting up one or more manufacturing machines for usage by a clinical computer over a computer network; designing, in a design software application on the clinical computer, the dental component to be manufactured; receiving, on t...