US Patent Issued to DENTAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES on March 18 for "Dental shade matching for multiple anatomical regions" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,278, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENTAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Quakertown, Pa.).

"Dental shade matching for multiple anatomical regions" was invented by Yannick Glinec (Serris, France) and Victor C. Wong (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shade matching method for a tooth obtains a plurality of digitized tooth shade references, obtains a three-dimensional (3D) surface representation of a tooth and associated color information defined on the three-dimensional (3D) surface, selects a region on the three-dimensional (3D) surface representation of the tooth, determines a plurality of correspondences with the ...