ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,237, issued on Nov. 11.
"System and method for alignment of volumetric and surface scan images" was invented by Matvey Ezhov (Yerevan, Armenia), Alex Sanders (Tel Aviv, Israel), Maria Golitsyna (Yerevan, Armenia) and Mamat Shamshiev (Yerevan, Armenia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for alignment of volumetric and surface scan images, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a volumetric image and surface scan image, wherein the volumetric image is a three-dimensional voxel array of a maxillofacial anatomy of a patient and the surface scan image is a polygonal mesh corresponding to the maxillofacial anatomy of the same p...