ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,481, issued on March 3, was assigned to EXOCAD GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Patient individual physical transfer key" was invented by Paul Schnitzspan (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for configurating a patient individual physical transfer key for transferring a virtually defined first position of a three-dimensional virtual representation of a physical model of a patients dentition within a 3D virtual representation of a physical articulator to the physical model of the patients dentition and the physical articulator. A 3D virtual representation of the physical transfer key is gene...