PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986305
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["433", "024000"]

Abstract:
System and methods for positioning 3D virtual brackets on teeth for the precise positioning of conventional brackets and wire. Various reference features may be calculated for the teeth and used to calculate a position for the virtual bracket. Reference features that are calculated include curve of Spee, Andrew's plane, and a facial axis of the clinical crown for the teeth.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for positioning virtual brackets on a virtual representation of a patient's teeth, the method comprising:\n receiving an electronic representation of the patient's teeth, the electronic representation being formed from an output of a scanner used to scan the patient's teeth; outputting, with a display, the virtual representation of the patient's teeth, the virtual representation of the patient's teeth being based on the electronic representation of the patient's teeth; determining facial axis points of one or more of the patient's teeth from the received electronic representation of the patient's teeth; determining a reference plane relative to the electronic representation of the patient's teeth; outputting, with the display, the reference plane relative to the virtual representation of the patient's teeth; outputting, with the display, control points, wherein the control points are manipulable by a user for modifying the anatomic reference plane; locating sites for placement of virtual brackets on the virtual representation of the patient's teeth based on at least the determined facial axis points of the patient's teeth; and outputting, with the display, the virtual brackets on the virtual representation of the patient's teeth in an initial position, the virtual brackets aligned on the virtual representation of the patient's teeth according to the reference plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57143
- Patent Class: 433.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11551605', '14991827', '10870689', '13412343', '11458635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6519745296316486
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5309663447547648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6398737111439603
- Mean Citation Score: 299.10329999999993
- Max Citation Score: 374.09348
- Similarity Product: 310.5038255151582

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test