US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on July 21 for "Neural network-based generation and placement of tooth restoration dental appliances" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,335, issued on July 21, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Neural network-based generation and placement of tooth restoration dental appliances" was invented by Jonathan D. Gandrud (Woodbury, Minn.), Cameron M. Fabbri (St. Paul, Minn.), Joseph C. Dingeldein (Hudson, Wis.), James D. Hansen (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and Benjamin D. Zimmer (Hudson, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for automating the design of dental restoration appliances using machine learning models. An example computing device receives transform information associated with a current dental anatomy of ...