ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,807, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENTAL MONITORING (Paris).
"Dentition control method" was invented by Philippe Salah (Paris), William Ayache (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), Guillaume Ghyselinck (Cantin, France), Laurent Debraux (Paris) and Thomas Pellissard (Clichy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for manufacturing an orthodontic appliance. A scanner for creating a numerical three-dimensional initial reference model of at least a part of a patient's arch including one or more teeth. An image acquisition device for acquiring at least one two-dimensional updated image of the arch. The image acquisition device is posi...