ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,189, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DENCOMM INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for converting part of dental image and apparatus therefor" was invented by Sunho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeyoung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hongseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for converting a part of a dental image. The method for converting a part of a dental image may comprise the steps of: receiving a dental image; receiving a user input corresponding to a conversion region of the dental image and a target type; and generating an output dental image in which the convers...