# US 2026/0076779 A1 · Dental Bracket Bonding Tray And Bracket Loading Quality Control System > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2026/0076779 A1 - Document ID: US20260076779A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 19/397,580 - Filed: 2025-11-21 - Published: 2026-03-19 - Earliest claimed: 2023-03-10 - Assignees: KLOwen Braces, Inc. - Applicants: KLOwen Braces, Inc. - Inventors: Brandon Owen; Jerry Dean Metz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20260076779A1 ## CPC - A61C 7/146: {Positioning or placement of brackets; Tools therefor} - A61C 7/002: {Orthodontic computer assisted systems} - A61C: DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE (non-driven toothbrushes A46B; {tongue scrapers A61B17/24;} preparations for dentistry A61K6/00; preparations for cleaning the teeth or mouth A61K8/00, A61Q11/00) ## Abstract A quality control system for maintaining quality control standards in the manufacture of indirect bonding trays and loading brackets into the indirect bonding trays. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A quality control system, comprising: a processor communicatively coupled to a non-transitory computer readable media containing a program code executable to: receive digital images of an indirect bonding tray under inspection; generate an image model of said indirect bonding tray based on said digital images; retrieve a digital model of said indirect bonding tray; compare said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray; and record one or more variances between said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein said program code further executed to compare an indirect bonding tray identification included in said digital model of said indirect bonding tray to said indirect bonding tray identification included in said image model. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein said program code further executable to: depict a graphical representation of said digital model on a display surface; depict a graphical representation of said image model on said display surface; overlay said digital model and said image model on said display surface; and generate visual indicia of said variances between said digital model overlaid with said image model on said display surface. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The system of claim 3, wherein said program code further executable to: associate a variance value with each of said one or more variances between said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray; compare each said variance value to a variance value threshold; and report each variance value which exceeds said variance value threshold. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The system of claim 4, wherein said program code further executable to delimit comparison between said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray to pre-defined structural features of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5, wherein said pre-defined structural features of said indirect bonding tray include one or more tooth pockets or one or more bracket pockets of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein said program further executable to: generate light transmission values based on an amount of light passing through said indirect bonding tray; associate said light transmission values with said image model of said indirect bonding tray; compare said light transmission values with light transmission thresholds; and report said light transmission values which exceed said light transmission thresholds. ### Claim 8 A quality control system, comprising: a processor communicatively coupled to a non-transitory computer readable media containing a program code executable to: retrieve a digital model of an indirect bonding tray under inspection, said digital model of said indirect bonding tray including bracket pockets loaded with dental brackets each having a bracket identification mark; receive digital images of said indirect bonding tray under inspection, said digital images including said bracket pockets loaded with said dental brackets each having said bracket identification mark; generate an image model based on said digital images of said indirect bonding tray including said bracket pockets loaded with said dental brackets each having said bracket identification mark; compare said image model of said indirect bonding tray including said bracket pockets loaded with said dental brackets each having said bracket identification mark to said digital model of said bonding tray loaded with said dental brackets each having said bracket identification mark; and record variances between said image model of said indirect bonding tray including said bracket pockets loaded with dental brackets each having said bracket identification mark and said digital model of said indirect bonding tray including said bracket pockets loaded with dental brackets each having said bracket identification mark. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein said program code further executed to report said variances between each said bracket identification mark in said image model of said indirect bonding tray and each said bracket identification mark in said digital model of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein said program code further executed to select based on a bracket prescription said dental brackets each having said bracket identification mark. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, wherein each of said dental brackets having said bracket identification mark selected from a dental bracket combinatory library. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein said bracket identification mark of each of said dental brackets disposed a gingival facing surface of said dental bracket. ### Claim 13 A method of quality control, comprising: disposing an indirect bonding tray on an inspection platform; illuminating said indirect bonding tray disposed on said inspection platform with one or more illumination devices; capturing one or more images of said indirect bonding tray disposed on said inspection platform with one or more image capture devices; communicatively coupling a processor to a non-transitory computer readable media containing a program code, said program code executed under control of said processor to: generate a digital model of said indirect bonding tray based on orthodontic treatment data; receive digital images of an indirect bonding tray captured by said one or more image capture devices; generate an image model of said indirect bonding tray based on said digital images; compare said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray; and record variances between said image model of said indirect bonding tray compared to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising executing said program code to compare an indirect bonding tray identification included in said digital model of said indirect bonding tray to said indirect bonding tray identification included in said image model. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, further comprising executing said program code to report a variance between said indirect bonding tray identification included in said digital model of said indirect bonding tray to said indirect bonding tray identification included in said image model. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising executing said program code to display a graphical user interface on a display surface to depict one or more of: a graphical representation of said digital model on a display surface; a graphical representation of said image model on said display surface; an overlay of said digital model and said image model on said display surface; and visual indicia of said variances in said digital model overlaid with said image model on said display surface. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising executing said program code to: associate a variance value with each of said variances between said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray; compare each said variance value to a variance value threshold; and report each variance value which exceeds said variance value threshold. ### Claim 18 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, further comprising executing said program code to delimit comparison between said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said indirect bonding tray to pre-defined structural features of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein said pre-defined structural features of said indirect bonding tray including one or more tooth pockets or one or more bracket pockets of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 20 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising executing said program to: generate light transmission values based on an amount of light passing through said indirect bonding tray disposed on said inspection platform; associate said light transmission values with said image model of said indirect bonding tray; compare said light transmission values with light transmission thresholds; and report said light transmission values which exceed said light transmission thresholds. ### Claim 21 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein said orthodontic treatment data includes a bracket prescription. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21, wherein said bracket prescription prescribes a plurality of dental brackets to correspondingly fill each of a plurality of tooth pockets in said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The method of claim 22, further comprising executing said program code to select said plurality of dental brackets to fill each of said plurality of tooth pockets in said indirect bonding tray, wherein each said plurality of dental brackets having a bracket identification mark optically perceivable by said one or more image capture devices. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The method of claim 23, wherein each of said plurality of dental brackets having said bracket identification mark selected from a bracket combinatory library. ### Claim 25 (depends on 23) The method of claim 23, further comprising loading each of said bracket pockets of said indirect bonding tray with said plurality of dental brackets having said bracket identification mark. ### Claim 26 (depends on 25) The method of claim 25, further comprising executing said program code to: generate said digital model of said indirect bonding tray including said bracket pockets each including one of said plurality of dental brackets having said bracket identification mark; retrieve said digital model of said indirect bonding tray including said bracket pockets each including one of said plurality of dental brackets having said bracket identification mark; receive digital images of said indirect bonding tray on said inspection platform, said one or more digital images including said bracket pockets each loaded with one of said plurality of dental brackets having a bracket identification mark; generate an image model based on said digital images of said indirect bonding tray including said bracket pockets each loaded with one of said plurality of dental brackets having said bracket identification mark; compare said image model of said indirect bonding tray to said digital model of said bonding tray; and record variances between said bracket identification mark on each of said plurality of dental brackets in said image model of said indirect bonding tray corresponding to said bracket identification mark on each of said plurality of dental brackets in said digital model of said indirect bonding tray. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The method of claim 26, further comprising executing said program code to report said variances between said bracket identification mark on each of said plurality of dental brackets in said image model of said indirect bonding tray corresponding to said bracket identification mark on each of said plurality of dental brackets in said digital model of said indirect bonding tray.