US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on July 1 for "Virtual articulation model for dental treatment" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,546, issued on July 1, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Virtual articulation model for dental treatment" was invented by Alberto Alvarez (Madrid) and Richard E. Raby (Lino Lakes, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining whether a tooth is correctly shaped and oriented to avoid interference with another tooth using virtual articulation. The method comprises a) receiving data indicative of a virtual dentition of an oral cavity of a patient by a computing device, the data indicative of the virtual dentition including data indicative of at least one of...