ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,238, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3SHAPE A/S (Copenhagen K, Denmark).
"Digital waxing for dental appliances" was invented by Adam Carsten Stoot (Soborg, Denmark) and Mathias Brannstrom (Malmo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer implemented method for generating a dental appliance including obtaining a first 3D digital surface representation of one or more teeth of a patient; creating a number of points in 3D space around the 3D digital surface representation, calculating the shortest distance from each of the points to the 3D digital surface representation; generating a modified 3D digital surface rep...