ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,108, issued on April 1, was assigned to DENTAL MONITORING (Paris).

"Method for analyzing an image of a dental arch" was invented by Philippe Salah (Bagnolet, France), Thomas Pellissard (Clichy, France), Guillaume Ghyselinck (Cantin, France) and Laurent Debraux (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modeling a dental arch of a patient. Creation of a historical library including more than 1000 historical tooth models, and assignment, to each historical tooth model, of a value for at least one tooth attribute value. Analysis of at least one analysis image of the dental arch by means of a deep learning device so as to determi...