ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,101, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CIRCLE ANATOSCOPE INTUITIVE DESIGN (Salon de Provence, France).

"Method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis and shell mould configured to carry out the method" was invented by Christophe Sireix (Bogeve, France), Alexandre Forest (Bellegarde, France) and Sebastien Lenoir (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis, including a step of digitally designing a dental prosthesis model from a replica model of a patient's teeth, a step of generating a jaw portion model including the teeth replica model and the dental prosthesis mode...