US Patent Issued to 3SHAPE on April 22 for "Automated production of dental restoration" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,928, issued on April 22, was assigned to 3SHAPE A/S (Copenhagen K, Denmark).

"Automated production of dental restoration" was invented by Rune Fisker (Virum, Denmark), Sven Nonboe (Hillerod, Denmark) and David Fischer (Stenlose, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing/producing a dental restoration for a patient, where the method includes: obtaining a 3D scan of at least a restoration site of the patient's mouth, where the manufactured dental restoration is adapted for fitting to the restoration site; obtaining a computer-aided design (CAD design) of the dental restoration; milling the restoration from a mate...