ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,915, issued on March 17, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).
"Processing digital 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 automatically detecting and removing extraneous material from a digital dental impression includes detecting one or more dental features in a digital dental impression, filtering the one or more dental features, digitally joining the one or more dental features, and determining one or more regions of interest from the joined o...