US Patent Issued to Mimetrik Solutions on March 18 for "Determining spatial relationship between upper and lower teeth" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,281, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mimetrik Solutions Ltd. (Leeds, Great Britain).

"Determining spatial relationship between upper and lower teeth" was invented by David John Wood (Leeds, Great Britain), Cecilie Anneth Osnes (Leeds, Great Britain) and Andrew James Keeling (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a 3D model of upper teeth (U1) of a patient (P) and a 3D model of lower teeth (L1) of the patient (P1), and receiving a plurality of 2D images, each image representative of at least a portion of the upper teeth (U1) and lower teeth (L1) of the patient (P). Th...