US Patent Issued to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics on July 22 for "Method of designing and fabricating patient-specific restorations from intra-oral scanning of a digital impression coping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,580, issued on July 22, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Method of designing and fabricating patient-specific restorations from intra-oral scanning of a digital impression coping" was invented by Grant Bullis (Newport Beach, Calif.), Tao Nguyen (Anaheim, Calif.) and Greg Minzenmayer (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Taking a digital implant or abutment level digital impression by means of intra-oral, computed tomography or other imaging method provides the restorative doctor and laboratory accurate and effective data for determining the implant position, angulation...