ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,568, issued on July 22, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"System and method for performing quality control of manufactured models" was invented by Abhishek Babasaheb Ajri (Lake Forest, Calif.), Vaheh Golestanian Nemagrdi (Orange, Calif.), Marco Antonio Jokada (Diamond Bar, Calif.) and David Christopher Leeson (North Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are example embodiments of methods and systems for identifying manufacturing defects of a manufactured dentition model. One of the methods for performing quality control comprises: determining whether the manufac...