US Patent Issued to THE METHODIST HOSPITAL SYSTEM on June 17 for "Automatic approach to establish dental occlusion for 1-piece, 2-piece, and 3-piece maxillary orthognathic surgeries" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,207, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE METHODIST HOSPITAL SYSTEM (Houston).

"Automatic approach to establish dental occlusion for 1-piece, 2-piece, and 3-piece maxillary orthognathic surgeries" was invented by James Jiong Xia (Houston), Jaime Gateno (Bellaire, Texas), Peng Yuan (Princeton, N.J.) and Han Deng (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for establishing dental occlusion are described herein. These systems and methods can be used for 1-, 2-, or 3-piece maxillary orthognathic surgeries. An example computer-implemented method includes receiving a maxillary dental model and a mandibular dental model, i...