US 12,734,613 B2 · Dental appliance production system

Abstract

A method includes: identifying marking parameters associated with performance of dental appliance etching; includes identifying a first segment of marking data to be etched onto a dental appliance; causing, via dental appliance marking equipment based on the marking parameters, etching of the first segment on the dental appliance; capturing image data associated with the etching of the first segment; and causing the marking parameters to be updated based on the image data. A method includes: subsequent to dental appliances being simultaneously thermoformed via a thermoforming system in a single batch, determining dental appliance data and laser tool data; determining, based on the dental appliance data and the laser tool data, global plan data for performing laser operations of the dental appliances via laser tools; and causing, based on the global plan data via the laser tools, the laser operations of the dental appliances.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

identifying marking parameters and marking data, wherein the marking parameters are associated with performance of dental appliance etching, wherein the marking data comprises one or more segments to be etched onto a dental appliance, and wherein the marking parameters comprise one or more of power data, frequency data, pitch data, resolution data, or velocity data;
identifying a first segment of the one or more segments of the marking data to be etched onto the dental appliance;
causing, via dental appliance marking equipment based on the marking parameters, etching of the first segment on the dental appliance;
capturing image data associated with the etching of the first segment;
causing the marking parameters to be updated based on the image data to generate updated marking parameters;
and
causing subsequent etching based on updated marking parameters.

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A system comprising:

a memory;
a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to:
identify marking parameters and marking data, wherein the marking parameters are associated with performance of dental appliance etching, wherein the marking data comprises one or more segments to be etched onto a dental appliance, and wherein the marking parameters comprise one or more of power data, frequency data, pitch data, resolution data, or velocity data;
identify a first segment of the one or more segments of the marking data to be etched onto the dental appliance;
cause, via dental appliance marking equipment based on the marking parameters, etching of the first segment on the dental appliance;
capture image data associated with the etching of the first segment;
cause the marking parameters to be updated based on the image data to generate updated marking parameters;
and
cause subsequent etching based on updated marking parameters.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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