ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,130, issued on May 26, was assigned to Voyager Dental Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Tools and automation for tooth setup" was invented by Michael C. Marshall (Edina, Minn.) and Bruce Willard Hultgren (Victoria, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, method includes receiving, by a computing system, a digital representation of the patient's jaw movement, receiving a digital model of at least a portion of the patient's upper and lower teeth, receiving user input indicating selection of at least a first tooth in the digital model as moveable, at least a second tooth as fixed, and at least a third tooth as ignored, moving the ...