ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,809, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).
"Dental procedures" was invented by Felix Kuhnel-Sumann (Zurich, Switzerland), Sascha Scandella (Zurich, Switzerland) and Thomas Fitze (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings relate to a method for processing a digital dental impression comprising: displaying an image of the digital dental impression; wherein the image comprises: a shaded region representative of a part of the oral anatomy which is relevant for a dental procedure, and the shaded region being enclosed within a boundary; and an unshaded region representative of a ...