Metal founding – Process – Shaping a forming surface
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-18
2010-06-15
Lin, Kuang (Department: 1793)
Metal founding
Process
Shaping a forming surface
C164S045000, C164S516000, C164S235000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07735542
ABSTRACT:
Dental appliances including multiple components and a system and method for constructing the same are disclosed herein. The dental components are designed to fit together to form the dental appliance. The components of the dental appliance are electronically modeled, printed, and pressed sequentially, separately, or as a unitary piece. Forming the dental appliance from multiple components enables each component of the dental appliance to be formed from a different material, each material having different features associated with it. In various embodiments, different materials have different colors, textures, opacities, and transformation factors associated with them. Furthermore, each component can be formed from multiple components. In some other embodiments, a support structure is designed and constructed in order to minimize deformation of a dental component during fabrication of the component.
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Ledin James Todd
Marshall Michael Craig
GeoDigm Corporation
Lin Kuang
Merchant & Gould P.C.
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