Patent ID: 9706958
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61C,G16H

Claim:
1. A method for characterizing in vivo operation of a dental prosthetic, the method comprising: attaching one or more subject position sensors to a measurement subject; transmitting subject position signals by one or more subject position sensors attached to the measurement subject; deriving subject position data from subject position signals, wherein the subject position data is ordered according to a subject position index; attaching one or more prosthetic tracking sensors to a dental prosthetic located within an oral cavity of the measurement subject; transmitting prosthetic tracking signals from the one or more prosthetic tracking sensors; deriving prosthetic positioning data from the prosthetic tracking signals, wherein the one or more prosthetic tracking sensors are non-line-of-sight sensors, and wherein the prosthetic tracking signals and the subject position signals are transmitted contemporaneously, and wherein the prosthetic position data is ordered according to a prosthetic position index; transforming the subject position data into a reference three-dimensional coordinate system, wherein the reference three-dimensional coordinate system is ordered according to a coordinate index, and wherein the coordinate index is based at least in part upon the subject position index; and comparing, automatically with one or more processors, the prosthetic position data and the reference three-dimensional coordinate system according to a comparison order to characterize the dental prosthetic, wherein the comparison order is based at least in part upon the prosthetic position index and the coordinate index.