US Patent Issued to VOYAGER DENTAL on July 14 for "Digital denture design and replacement" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,268, issued on July 14, was assigned to VOYAGER DENTAL INC. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Digital denture design and replacement" was invented by Bruce Willard Hultgren (Victoria, Minn.), John Michael Madden (Minneapolis), Michael C. Marshall (Edina, Minn.) and Stephen B. Siegfried Floe (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, components, devices, methods, and systems for generating dentures are provided. An example system includes a motion capture system that captures patient jaw motion and generates patient jaw motion data; and a denture design system that generates a denture design based on the patient jaw motion d...