ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,304, issued on April 29, was assigned to EXOCAD GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Testing model for testing fitting of a dental restoration" was invented by Tillmann Steinbrecher (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for providing a physical testing model for testing a fitting of a dental restoration to be hardened before the dental restoration being hardened. The dental restoration is required to fit onto a dental element after being hardened. The method comprises providing a 3D digital model of the dental element. Size of the 3D digital model of the dental element is scaled using a first scal...