Patents by Inventor Alfredo Dos Santos

Alfredo Dos Santos has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD OF CAPTURING DIGITAL OCCLUSAL BITE DATA FOR EDENTULOUS PATIENTS
    Publication number: 20190298176
    Abstract: A method of obtaining a digital occlusal bite, whether of single or both edentulous arches, without the need for a dental/arch impression. The method may include creating a clear stent from a patient's existing denture, placing one or more abutments into position according to the clear stent, scanning one or more of the patient's dental arches while one or more abutments are in place, and placing the stent in the patient's mouth into a bite position for capturing a true occlusal bite as a digital file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Luiz Alfredo Dos-Santos, Shawn S. Ahn
  • OIL PAN OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20100065014
    Abstract: An oil sump of a combustion engine, including an anti-surge plate fastened to the oil sump and extending parallel to the bottom of the oil sump and an oil pump strainer immersed in the reservoir of the oil sump below the anti-surge plate. The oil sump includes a mechanism to keep the oil pump strainer immersed in the oil, including a first mechanism belonging to the oil sump and a second mechanism belonging to the anti-surge plate, the first and second mechanisms forming a baffle for the flow of oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Alfredo Dos Santos, Jean-Luc Gateau