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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116900 | Method and associated system for recording and retrieving fabrication and/or fitting data associated with a prosthetic component A method for fabricating a prosthetic limb socket component includes the following steps: (a) obtaining measurements of an individual's residual limb; (b) generating electronic data representing outer dimensions of the individual's residual limb utilizing (at least ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7983787 | Methods of making artistic sculpture and sculptures so made A method for creating a sculpture includes obtaining a profile of a person or thing, using the profile to create a three dimensional object in which the profile is revolved about an axis. The resulting sculpture shows the profile in positive space over its entire su... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983788 | Method for analyzing reflection properties A method allows analyzing and describing the reflective properties of a three-dimensionally structured original surface. The topology of the original surface is determined and the topological data are stored in the form of a depth map in a first data record and eval... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7393485 | Method and apparatus for creating a sculpture on a container An efficient and cost-effective method of designing and manufacturing a molded container having highly artistic sculptural relief. Computer software is utilized to design a skin shape, create artwork designs, add relief to the artwork designs, and apply the artwork ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383094 | Method for CNC milling a wax model of a dental prosthesis or coping A wax model of a required coping is produced using CNC machining techniques based on a virtual model of the coping created from digital data obtained from the intraoral cavity. The dental coping is then fabricated from the wax model. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7371067 | Simulation method for designing customized medical devices The invention provides a system for virtually designing a medical device conformed for use with a specific patient. Using the system, a three-dimensional geometric model of a patient-specific body cavity or lumen is reconstructed from scanned volume images such as o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369909 | Producing three-dimensional objects from deformable material Three-dimensional objects are produced from a deformable material received substantially continuously in the direction of production and the objects are produced by a deforming process substantially in the direction of production. Rotatable devices are arranged to d... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356379 | Method and associated system for recording and retrieving fabrication and/or fitting data associated with a prosthetic component A method of socket design and fabrication for Below-the-Knee (BK) amputees that utilizes manual measurements. This method, known as BK by Measurement, utilizes a manual measurement procedure where predetermined points are identified and measurements are taken of a p... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349936 | Interpolation method, apparatus for carrying out the method, and control program for implementing the method There is provided an interpolation method for the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) applied to a two-phase incompressible fluid, in particular, which makes it possible to cause time evolution of a shape-describing function based on the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method while preserv... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350182 | Methods of forming patterned reticles The invention includes methods of forming patterned reticles. Design features can be introduced into a layout for a reticle prior to optical proximity correction, and then removed prior to taping a pattern onto the reticle. Design features can alternatively, or addi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341450 | Tooth shade scan system and method A tooth shade scan system is provided that identifies tooth shades for a patient's tooth. An electronic database of tooth shade information for a shade guide may be stored. The database may include shade information based on tooth regions (e.g., the incisal, central... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340316 | System and method for producing medical devices The present invention relates generally to a method and system used to capture three-dimensional images for the purposes of, but not limited to, designing and fabricating medical devices and other medical-related uses of three-dimensional images. The present system ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331783 | System and method for positioning teeth Methods and apparatus fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system and computing an occlusion based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328080 | Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells Methods, apparatus and computer program products provide efficient techniques for designing and printing shells of hearing-aid devices with a high degree of quality assurance and reliability and with a reduced number of manual and time consuming production steps and... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315644 | Investigation of destroyed assemblies and identification of components thereof A method is disclosed for providing a means for identifying recovered component parts of a destroyed assembly quickly and relatively easily using digital or electronic scanning techniques and comparison to virtual components that are presumed to have constituted the... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311866 | Method for creating a mold for a knee brace and a knee brace Disclosed is a method for producing a three-dimensional composite structure and a method for producing the mold for the three-dimensional composite structure. The mold is formed of at least one rigid die member and a second thermoplastic die member. The second therm... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7285091 | Assessment of tooth structure using laser based ultrasonics A means of assessing the internal structure of teeth based upon use of high frequency, highly localized ultrasound (acoustic waves) generated by a short laser pulse is presented. In contrast to traditional contact transducer methods, laser-generated ultrasound is no... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286954 | System and method for scanning an intraoral cavity According to the invention, a method and system are provided for scanning, and for facilitating scanning of, an intraoral cavity. The target parts of the intraoral cavity that it is desired to have scanned are identified, and the spatial relationships between a scan... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275218 | Method, apparatus, and program for analyzing a prosthetic device A method for analyzing a prosthetic device includes the step of displaying a graphical user interface. The method further includes determining a user selected prosthetic device via the graphical user interface. The method also includes determining a first user selec... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270592 | Milling machine The improved milling machine makes use of individually controlled x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis carriages. These carriages provide positive and precise control of the position of the cutting tools and the blank to be cut. The tools are located in spindles that are move... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263499 | Electronic commerce system in which commodities are displayed in combination with background images A server connected to a network generates an image by combining an image of a commodity and an image of a background together and transmits the resultant image to a user terminal. If the server receives from the user a request to purchase the commodity, the server p... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257521 | Support system, and computer-readable recording medium in which support program is recorded An apparatus concurrently executing designing of a mechanism and developing of embedded software. A three-dimensional-mechanism model simulates an operation of the mechanism, an embedded software developing section develops a control program to control the designing... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245977 | Systems and methods for mass customization A method facilitates mass customization of an object by generating a template representing data common to the object; generating specific data to customize the object in conjunction with the template; and fabricating a customized version of the object. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245982 | System and process for measuring, compensating and testing numerically controlled machine tool heads and/or tables A system and a process are disclosed, that are automated and integrated with numerically controlled systems, for measuring, compensating and testing numerically controlled machine tool heads (1) and/or tables. The system comprises: at least one support base (... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245753 | Method for determining dental alignment using radiographs A method for determining dental alignment of a 3-dimensional model of one or more teeth of a patient comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a radiograph of the teeth of the patient; (b) obtaining a digital image from the radiograph indicative of the dental alignment ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240414 | Prosthetic interior casting process and product A method of sizing, resizing or reshaping the interior of a prosthetic device includes placing a lightweight moldable or shape assuming, pliable material that adheres and hardens on the interior sides of a socket of a prosthetic device. An end of a residual limb is ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239937 | Method and associated system for recording and retrieving fabrication and/or fitting data associated with a prosthetic component A method of socket design and fabrication for Below-the-Knee (BK) amputees that utilizes manual measurements. This method, known as BK by Measurement, utilizes a manual measurement procedure where predetermined points are identified and measurements are taken of a p... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234937 | Unified workstation for virtual craniofacial diagnosis, treatment planning and therapeutics An integrated system is described in which digital image data of a patient, obtained from a variety of image sources, including CT scanner, X-Ray, 2D or 3D scanners and color photographs, are combined into a common coordinate system to create a virtual three-dimensi... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236842 | System and method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis and a dental prosthesis manufactured thereby A dental prosthesis is made by externally machining successive layers of wax, each of which is formed on a previous prosthesis layer and/or on a coping. Each wax layer is used to form a mold in situ over the previous prosthesis layer/coping, and the appropriate pros... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231277 | Surface shape determining device for a machining apparatus and surface shape determining method In a state of separating a front end face of an air injecting nozzle 23 from a worked work W by a predetermined interval h, the air injecting nozzle 23 is moved at a constant speed in an X axis direction, injects air from an injecting hole 27... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226338 | Milling machine The improved milling machine makes use of individually controlled x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis carriages. These carriages provide positive and precise control of the position of the cutting tools and the blank to be cut. A tool changer allows the tools to be changed t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220376 | Individually-contoured seat cushion and shape capturing and fabricating method for seat cushion A negative impression of an anatomical portion of a person is captured by forcing the anatomical portion into impression foam to collapse the impression foam into the negative impression. The impression foam has a crush characteristic of approximately constant resis... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216003 | Hi-accuracy three-dimensional topographic modeling apparatus A cutting apparatus includes a hi-accuracy three-dimensional cutting apparatus for topographic modeling that is electronically coupled with a computer. The computer has a central processor that executes instructions, a memory for storing instructions to be executed,... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209564 | Generation of customized three dimensional sound effects for individuals A system for customising the synthesis and generation of spatial hearing in virtual auditory space (VAS) for individual listeners includes a measuring ruler (12) and a digital processing unit (DPU) (14) to which the ruler (12) is connected. The ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197179 | Methods for registration of three-dimensional frames to create three-dimensional virtual models of objects A method and system are provided for constructing a virtual three-dimensional model of an object using a data processing system, and at least one machine-readable memory accessible to said data processing system. A set of at least two digital three-dimensional frame... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7172417 | Three-dimensional occlusal and interproximal contact detection and display using virtual tooth models Occlusal contact between upper and lower virtual three-dimensional teeth of a patient when the upper and lower arches are in an occlused condition are determined and displayed to the user on a user interface of a general purpose computing device. Various techniques ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164126 | Method of forming a sample image and charged particle beam apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a sample image forming method and a charged particle beam apparatus which are suitable for realizing suppressing of the view area displacement with high accuracy while the influence of charging due to irradiation of t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7160110 | Three-dimensional occlusal and interproximal contact detection and display using virtual tooth models Occlusal contact between upper and lower virtual three-dimensional teeth of a patient when the upper and lower arches are in an occlused condition are determined and displayed to the user on a user interface of a general purpose computing device. Various techniques ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162322 | Custom prosthetic liner manufacturing system and method A system and method for manufacturing a custom prosthetic liner. The system may include a shape capture device for capturing the shape of a residual limb. The captured shape may be used to generate a 3-dimensional electronic liner model using a processor and special... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162323 | Decentralized method for manufacturing hearing aid devices Method for manufacturing custom fit ear pieces, such as hearing aid devices, by using rapid prototyping machinery in a decentralized location to provide custom fit ear pieces to patients within a few hours rather than a few days or weeks. ... | 01/09/2007 |
