ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,428, issued on May 5, was assigned to ProSomnus Sleep Technologies Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Automated method of manufacturing oral appliances" was invented by Sung Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.), David W. Kuhns (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Leonard A. Liptak (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods of manufacturing an oral appliance, the method comprising the steps of: a) importing into a computer aided design (CAD) computer program a digitized data set obtained from a three-dimensional scan of a patient's dentition; b) preparing a three-dimensional electronic model of the patient's dentition; c) subtract...