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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2022
Applicant:
James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sergey Nikolskiy, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
Fedor Chelnokov, Khimki, RU;
Assignee:
James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 9/00 (2006.01); A61C 13/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/51 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 9/0053 (2013.01); A61C 9/0006 (2013.01); A61C 13/0004 (2013.01); A61B 6/51 (2024.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system of automatically detecting and removing extraneous material from a digital dental impression includes detecting one or more dental features in a digital dental impression, filtering the one or more dental features, digitally joining the one or more dental features, and determining one or more regions of interest from the joined one or more digital dental features.