ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,456, issued on Nov. 11.
"System and method for augmented intelligence in guided dental surgery" 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 computer-implemented system and method for displaying a target abutment for guided surgical preparation of a tooth for receiving a crown or dental prosthetic. Two dimensional images (2D) of the tooth are obtained from a dental scanner and converted into a three dimensional (3D) image, which is converted into a mesh data file representation of tooth. The mesh file is then converted into one or more 2D descriptor matrix...