ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,678, issued on June 30, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Occlusal vertical dimension reproduction method for manufacturing artificial teeth" was invented by Myoung Woo Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an occlusal vertical dimension reproduction method for denture fabrication and, more specifically, to an occlusal vertical dimension reproduction method for denture fabrication, wherein three-dimensional scan data is used to calculate the occlusal vertical dimension required to denture fabrication. The occlusal vertical dimension reproduction method for denture fa...