ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,471, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MERIT CABOT LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Dental device manufacturing system and method" was invented by Cameron Karpowitz (San Clemente, Calif.), Cannon F. Allen Jr. (Omaha, Neb.) and Dicken Smith (Holladay, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing system and method obtain a first digital model of teeth, create a modified digital model of the teeth by adding a locator feature to the first digital model of the teeth, and create a physical model of the teeth based on the modified digital model. A portion of the physical model is created based on the locator feature. A dental aligner device ...