ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,828, issued on April 22.
"System and method for providing a dental crown" was invented by Andrew C. Johnson (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Charles A. Davis Jr. (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method and system for providing preoperative patient intraoral scanning for diagnosis and preparation of a treatment plan utilizing the proposed system in advance of the crown surgery and intraoperative patient intraoral scanning for system assessment and verification for the method of treatment. More specifically, the proposed invention proposes a method and system of patient intraoral scanning to identify the best predesign...