US Patent Issued to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics on April 7 for "Processing CT scan of dental impression" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,151, issued on April 7, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Processing CT scan of dental impression" was invented by Sergey Nikolskiy (Coto de Caza, Calif.) and Fedor Chelnokov (Khimki, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system of determining a material surface from a volumetric density file includes generating a density frequency distribution of a volumetric density file of a dental impression and determining an iso-value of density between air and a particular material in the density frequency distribution. A computer-implemented method and system of...