Patents by Inventor Amit Gawate

Amit Gawate 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).

  • Computer aided dental bar design
    Patent number: 7747418
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-aided process of dental bar design for the purpose of fabricating removable implant-based dental restorations. The aim of the invention is to improve and automate the present dental restoration design process, which is very labor intensive and requires a lot of artistic work on the part of a dentist. The invention includes the developments of several algorithms and their integration into a computer-aided system to process the gingival and related data scanned from a patient's mouth and output a CAD model for fabricating the actual dental bar. Software has been developed to implement the inventive process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Inventors: Ming C. Leu, Amit Gawate
  • Computer aided dental bar design
    Publication number: 20070134625
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-aided process of dental bar design for the purpose of fabricating removable implant-based dental restorations. The aim of the invention is to improve and automate the present dental restoration design process, which is very labor intensive and requires a lot of artistic work on the part of a dentist. The invention includes the developments of several algorithms and their integration into a computer-aided system to process the gingival and related data scanned from a patient's mouth and output a CAD model for fabricating the actual dental bar. Software has been developed to implement the inventive process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Ming Leu, Amit Gawate