Patent ID: 11864973
Assignee: OXILIO LTD
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 15:
16. A system of manufacturing an orthodontic appliance with an object incorporated in a surface thereof, the system comprising an electronic device having a processor and an internal memory, the internal memory storing instructions, and the processor, upon executing the instructions, being configured to:
acquire a preliminary appliance 3D digital model, the preliminary appliance 3D digital model including a representation of the surface of the orthodontic appliance to which the object will be incorporated;
acquire an object 3D digital model representative of the object to be incorporated in the surface of the orthodontic appliance, the object 3D digital model comprising a plurality of vertices;
obtain a desired coupling location of the object on the surface of the orthodontic appliance;
position at least a portion of a base of the object 3D digital model onto a surface of the preliminary appliance 3D digital model based on the obtained coupling location;
cause an initial predetermined degree of penetration of at least one vertex representative of the base into the surface of the preliminary appliance 3D digital model at the coupling location, thereby merging the object 3D digital model with the preliminary appliance 3D digital model;
extrude the object 3D digital model into the surface of the preliminary object 3D digital model whilst retaining the base of the object 3D digital model at the initial predetermined degree of penetration;
determine the preliminary appliance 3D digital model and the object 3D digital merged therewith as being an appliance 3D digital model of the orthodontic appliance with the object incorporated in the surface thereof; and
store the appliance 3D digital model in the internal memory of the electronic device.