US Patent Issued to Institut Straumann on April 29 for "Method and system for generation of a model for use in a virtual extraction procedure of a targeted extraction object in a patient" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,291, issued on April 29, was assigned to Institut Straumann AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Method and system for generation of a model for use in a virtual extraction procedure of a targeted extraction object in a patient" was invented by Albrecht Schnappauf (Witzschdorf, Germany), Benjamin Jaehn (Chemnitz, Germany) and Theo Uwimana Perrod (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a virtual model of an object in a patient's anatomy. The method employs a surface scan of an anatomical region of the patient's oral cavity and a volumetric density scan of the anatomical region. The method includes receiving a fi...