Patents by Inventor Rune Fisker
Rune Fisker 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).
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Publication number: 20240115137Abstract: Disclosed are methods and digital tools for deriving tooth condition information for a patient's teeth, for populating a digital dental chart with derived tooth condition information, and for generating an electronic data record containing such information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Mike VAN DER POEL, Rune FISKER, Karl-Josef HOLLENBECK
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Publication number: 20240115360Abstract: A method for manufacturing/producing a dental restoration for a patient, where the method includes: obtaining a 3D scan of at least a restoration site of the patient's mouth, where the manufactured dental restoration is adapted for fitting to the restoration site; obtaining a computer-aided design (CAD design) of the dental restoration; milling the restoration from a material, where the restoration is milled both on an inside surface configured for fitting to the shape of the restoration site of the patient's mouth and on an outside surface, where the milling is according to the obtained CAD design; transferring the milled restoration to a retention means providing a fixed known position of the restoration relative to a post-processing machinery, where the restoration is retained on the inside surface, such that the outside surface of the restoration is approachable/free/accessible; and performing post-processing of the outside surface of the restoration.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune FISKER, Sven NONBOE, David FISCHER
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Patent number: 11931128Abstract: Disclosed are methods and digital tools for deriving tooth condition information for a patient's teeth, for populating a digital dental chart with derived tooth condition information, and for generating an electronic data record containing such information.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Mike Van Der Poel, Rune Fisker, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck
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Patent number: 11903792Abstract: A method for manufacturing/producing a dental restoration for a patient, where the method includes: obtaining a 3D scan of at least a restoration site of the patient's mouth, where the manufactured dental restoration is adapted for fitting to the restoration site; obtaining a computer-aided design (CAD design) of the dental restoration; milling the restoration from a material, where the restoration is milled both on an inside surface configured for fitting to the shape of the restoration site of the patient's mouth and on an outside surface, where the milling is according to the obtained CAD design; transferring the milled restoration to a retention means providing a fixed known position of the restoration relative to a post-processing machinery, where the restoration is retained on the inside surface, such that the outside surface of the restoration is approachable/free/accessible; and performing post-processing of the outside surface of the restoration.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: 3Shape A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Sven Nonboe, David Fischer
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Patent number: 11903779Abstract: A method for validating a preparation of at least one tooth in a prepared set of teeth for determining whether the prepared tooth is capable of accepting a dental restoration includes obtaining a virtual dental preparation guide configured for validating the preparation of the at least one tooth; obtaining a digital 3D representation of the prepared set of teeth; visualizing the virtual dental preparation guide together with the digital 3D representation of the prepared set of teeth; and validating from the visualization of the virtual dental preparation guide together with the digital 3D representation of the prepared set of teeth whether the prepared at least one tooth is shaped such that it can accept the dental restoration.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Nikolaj Deichmann
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Publication number: 20240016588Abstract: Disclosed is a method of generating and modifying a virtual model of a set of teeth, where the method provides that a restoration can be inserted into a physical model of the set of teeth manufactured from the virtual model of the set of teeth. A method of and a system for generating a virtual model of a set of teeth for manufacturing a physical model of the set of teeth, and to a physical model of a set of teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune FISKER, Sven NONBOE
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Publication number: 20230403387Abstract: A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune FISKER, Henrik ÖJELUND, Rasmus KJÆR, Mike VAN DER POEL, Arish A. QAZI, Karl-Josef HOLLENBECK
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Patent number: 11831815Abstract: A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Henrik Öjelund, Rasmus Kjaer, Mike Van Der Poel, Arish A. Qazi, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck
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Patent number: 11825062Abstract: Disclosed is a method for compensating for motion blur when performing a 3D scanning of at least a part of an object by means of a 3D scanner, where the motion blur occurs because the scanner and the object are moved relative to each other while the scanning is performed, and where the motion blur compensation comprises: —determining whether there is a relative motion between the scanner and the object during the acquisition of the sequence of focus plane images; —if a relative motion is determined, performing a motion compensation based on the determined motion; and —generating a 3D surface from the sequence of focus plane images.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Henrik Öjelund, Mike Van Der Poel, Kristian Evers Hansen, Anders Gaarde
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Patent number: 11813126Abstract: A method for designing a dental prosthesis and a positioning guide for placing the dental prosthesis on implants in the jaw while maintaining proper occlusion relates to designing the dental prosthesis and the positioning guide prior to implant placement.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Birk Plönnigs, Rune Fisker
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Patent number: 11779440Abstract: Disclosed is a method of generating and modifying a virtual model of a set of teeth, where the method provides that a restoration can be inserted into a physical model of the set of teeth manufactured from the virtual model of the set of teeth. A method of and a system for generating a virtual model of a set of teeth for manufacturing a physical model of the set of teeth, and to a physical model of a set of teeth.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: 3Shape A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Sven Nonboe
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Publication number: 20230293261Abstract: A method for validating a preparation of at least one tooth in a prepared set of teeth for determining whether the prepared tooth is capable of accepting a dental restoration includes obtaining a virtual dental preparation guide configured for validating the preparation of the at least one tooth; obtaining a digital 3D representation of the prepared set of teeth; visualizing the virtual dental preparation guide together with the digital 3D representation of the prepared set of teeth; and validating from the visualization of the virtual dental preparation guide together with the digital 3D representation of the prepared set of teeth whether the prepared at least one tooth is shaped such that it can accept the dental restoration.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Nikolaj Deichmann
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Patent number: 11751981Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of using a dynamic virtual articulator for simulating occlusion of teeth, when performing computer-aided designing of one or more dental restorations for a patient, where the method includes the steps of: providing the virtual articulator including a virtual three-dimensional model of the upper jaw and a virtual three-dimensional model of the lower jaw resembling the upper jaw and lower jaw, respectively, of the patient's mouth; providing movement of the virtual upper jaw and the virtual lower jaw relative to each other for simulating dynamic occlusion, whereby collisions between teeth in the virtual upper and virtual lower jaw occur; wherein the method further includes: providing that the teeth in the virtual upper jaw and virtual lower jaw are blocked from penetrating each other's virtual surfaces in the collisions.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Christophe Vasiljev Barthe, Kasper Kabell Kristensen, Tommy Sanddal Poulsen
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Patent number: 11727160Abstract: A computer product for generating a digital 3D model for use in a dental component based on a digital 3D model of the dental component showing a shape of the teeth and a digital 3D representation of a pre-prepared set of teeth showing the region for which the dental component is intended, the product causing a system to generate a digital 3D combined model representing a target dental situation when the dental component is arranged at the teeth, where the instructions are configured for digitally replacing one or more teeth of the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth with the digital 3D model of the dental component by digitally removing the one or more teeth of the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth and adding the digital 3D model of the dental component to the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: 3Shape A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Sven Nonboe
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Patent number: 11723759Abstract: Disclosed in a method, a user interface and a system for use in determining shade of a patient's tooth, wherein a digital 3D representation including shape data and texture data for the tooth is obtained. A tooth shade value for at least one point on the tooth is determined based on the texture data of the corresponding point of the digital 3D representation and on known texture values of one or more reference tooth shade values.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: 3Shape A/SInventors: Bo Esbech, Rune Fisker, Lars Henriksen, Tais Clausen
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Patent number: 11707347Abstract: Disclosed in a method, a user interface and a system for use in determining shade of a patient's tooth, wherein a digital 3D representation including shape data and texture data for the tooth is obtained. A tooth shade value for at least one point on the tooth is determined based on the texture data of the corresponding point of the digital 3D representation and on known texture values of one or more reference tooth shade values.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Bo Esbech, Rune Fisker, Lars Henriksen, Tais Clausen
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Publication number: 20230228564Abstract: A 3D scanner system includes a scanning device capable of recording first and second data sets of a surface of an object when operating in a first configuration and a second configuration, respectively. A measurement unit is configured for measuring a distance from the scanning device to the surface. A control controls an operation of the scanning device based on the distance measured by the measurement unit, where the scanning device operates in the first configuration when the measured distance is within a first range of distances from the surface and the scanning device operates in the second configuration when the measured distance is within a second range of distances; and a data processor is configured to combine one or more first data sets and one or more second data sets to create a combined virtual 3D model of the object surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: 3Shape A/SInventors: Nikolaj Deichmann, Mike Van Der Poel, Karl-Josef HOLLENBECK, Rune Fisker
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Patent number: 11701208Abstract: Disclosed in a method, a user interface and a system for use in determining shade of a patient's tooth, wherein a digital 3D representation including shape data and texture data for the tooth is obtained. A tooth shade value for at least one point on the tooth is determined based on the texture data of the corresponding point of the digital 3D representation and on known texture values of one or more reference tooth shade values.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Bo Esbech, Rune Fisker, Lars Henriksen, Tais Clausen
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Publication number: 20230200655Abstract: Disclosed are methods and digital tools for deriving tooth condition information for a patient’s teeth, for populating a digital dental chart with derived tooth condition information, and for generating an electronic data record containing such information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Mike VAN DER POEL, Rune Fisker, Karl-Josef HOLLENBECK
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Patent number: 11671582Abstract: A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Henrik Öjelund, Rasmus Kjaer, Mike Van Der Poel, Arish A. Qazi, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck