US Patent Issued to INSTITUT STRAUMANN on May 26 for "Manufacturing of dental implants based on digital scan data alignment" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,966, issued on May 26, was assigned to INSTITUT STRAUMANN AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Manufacturing of dental implants based on digital scan data alignment" was invented by Benjamin Jaehn (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for aligning at least two different digital scan data each representing at least a part of a dentition of a patient includes scanning the patient's dentition so as to record volumetric 3-dimensional digital scan data in a volumetric coordinate system and scanning the patient's dentition so as to record topographic 3-dimensional digital scan data in a topographic coordinate system. The teeth or...