US Patent Issued to IMAGOWORKS on May 20 for "Automated method for aligning three dimensional dental library model to three dimensional oral scan data and computer readable medium having program for performing the method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,693, issued on May 20, was assigned to IMAGOWORKS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automated method for aligning three dimensional dental library model to three dimensional oral scan data and computer readable medium having program for performing the method" was invented by Bonjour Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Hannah Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Donguk Kam (Seoul, South Korea), Jinhyeok Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Tae-geun Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method for aligning a 3D dental library model to 3D oral scan data includes determining a valid tooth of the 3D oral sc...