ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,030, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).
"Scanning dental impressions" was invented by Sergey Nikolskiy (Coto De Caza, Calif.), David Christopher Leeson (North Tustin, Calif.), Shih-Kai Lai (Irvine, Calif.) and Loraine Allessandra Queji Silva (Huntington Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for scanning a dental impression to obtain a digital model of a patient's dentition as an input to computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) methods for producing dental prostheses. Systems and methods are provided for ...