Patents by Inventor Lorenzo FRANCHI

Lorenzo FRANCHI 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).

  • Publication number: 20200397536
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing customized facemasks, includes: producing respective impressions of patient's forehead and chin, to record an anatomic structure thereof, using impression materials commonly utilized in dentistry for intraoral impressions; producing respective 3D digital images of a patient's forehead and chin through a 3d-scanning of the forehead and chin impressions; 3D printing of customized forehead and chin pads; detecting patient's side profile line from a side picture of patient's face; 3D printing of a midline rod modelled according to said profile line; and assembling the forehead and chin pads and said midline rod into a facemask featuring a facial frame providing retention to elastic bands connectable to an intraoral appliance, in the forehead pad a temperature sensor is inserted while a pressure sensor is embedded into the chin pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicants: UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
    Inventors: Cecilia GORACCI, Patrizia MARTI, Matteo SIRIZZOTTI, Alessandro VICHI, Lorenzo FRANCHI