US Patent Issued to Intellident Dentaire on Oct. 21 for "Augmented reality method and system for dental preparations" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,228, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intellident Dentaire Inc. (Westmount, Canada).

"Augmented reality method and system for dental preparations" was invented by Julia Keren (Westmount, Canada) and Nathaniel Lasry (Hampstead, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system that, with a surface representation of a virtual dental preparation being provided for a specific tooth, and until an exit condition is reached, repeat: generating an overlay from the surface representation based on a computed difference between a real-dental preparation and the virtual dental preparation; and coincidently superimposing the overlay upo...