ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,310, issued on Oct. 14.
"Method for simulating dental images that include tooth roots" was invented by Daniel Abraham (Raanana, Israel) and Chen Porat (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for monitoring teeth position during treatment includes segmenting three-dimensional dental X-ray image data of teeth in a first treatment state and segmenting optical-scan (OS) image data of the teeth in a second treatment state. The position and orientation of each segmented X-ray crown is compared with the position and orientation of each segmented OS crown to determine any relative position differenc...