US Patent Issued to uLab Systems on April 22 for "Systems and methods for fabricating dental appliances or shells" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,923, issued on April 22, was assigned to uLab Systems Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for fabricating dental appliances or shells" was invented by Huafeng Wen (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for cutting and trimming dental molds and oral appliances by receiving a digital model of teeth, determining a cutting loop path and applying a drape wall to the cutting loop to generate a simplified tooth base in a dental mold having an inner arch curve and an outer arch curve. The oral appliance may be formed on the dental mold and a cutter may be applied using a sweeping motio...