ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,994, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DENTAL MONITORING (Paris).
"Method for analyzing an image of a dental arch" was invented by Philippe Salah (Paris), Thomas Pellissard (Paris), Guillaume Ghyselinck (Cantin, France) and Laurent Debraux (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing the shape of an orthodontic aligner, said method comprising the following steps: a") acquisition of at least one image at least partially representing the aligner in a service position in which it is worn by a patient, called "analysis image"; b") analysis of the analysis image by means of a deep learning device, preferably a neural netw...