US Patent Issued to INSTITUT STRAUMANN on Aug. 26 for "Manufacturing of orthodontic devices based on standardized scan representations" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,831, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to INSTITUT STRAUMANN AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Manufacturing of orthodontic devices based on standardized scan representations" was invented by Benjamin Jaehn (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing an orthodontic device includes scanning at least a part of a patient's dentition so as to record a volumetric 3-dimensional scan data, and segmenting the scan data so as to obtain individual teeth and/or jaws. A tooth main axis is determined for each tooth in order to obtain a two-dimensional key point representation of each tooth in the occlusal plane. An even or...