ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,166, issued on March 4.
"System and method for augmented intelligence in dental pattern recognition" was invented by Fabien Coulombe (Chelsea, Canada) and Akshaykumar Ketankumar Patel (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dental image file capture and manipulation for the purpose of dental, orthodontic, and periodontic tracking, diagnostics, and dental prosthetic and implant design. Augmented intelligence in dental file segmentation using descriptor matrixes with a common centroid or reference locus as a reference point describing related dental surface structures reduces the data size of dental image files s...