US Patent Issued to MEDIT on Jan. 20 for "Occlusion alignment method and occlusion alignment apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,655, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Occlusion alignment method and occlusion alignment apparatus" was invented by Dong Hwa Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Du Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occlusion alignment method according to the present disclosure includes: extracting at least one tooth area data from upper jaw scan data and lower jaw scan data; and adjusting an occlusion position of the upper jaw scan data and the lower jaw scan data using the at least one tooth area data."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2021, under Application No. 18/036,542.

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