ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,952, issued on Dec. 9.

"Computer-implemented detection and processing of oral features" was invented by Padma Gadiyar (Brisbane, Australia), Praveen Narra (San Jose, Calif.), Anand Selvadurai (Tamil Nadu, India), Radeeshwar Reddy (Andhra Pradesh, India), Sai Ainala (Andhra Pradesh, India) and Hemadri Babu Jogi (Andhra Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are computer-implemented methods for analyzing an input image of a mouth region from a user to provide information regarding a disease or condition of the mouth region, a computing device configured to receive the input images from a user; and a trained machi...