ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,652, issued on June 16, was assigned to DENTAL MONITORING (Paris).
"Method for acquiring a model of a dental arch" was invented by Thomas Pellissard (Maisons-Alfort, France) and Guillaume Ghyselinck (Cantin, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring a model of a dental arch of a user includes, at an update time, extra-oral acquisition, with a portable scanner, by the user, of a digital three-dimensional model of the arch. Optionally, the method includes a division of the model of the arch so as to isolate one portion of the model of the arch, so as to obtain an "updated model". The updated model thus possibly being...