ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,764, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics Inc. (Newport Beach, Calif.).
"CT reconstruction quality control" was invented by Fedor Chelnokov (Khimki, Russia) and Grant Karapetyan (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system, and instructions can include receiving a reconstructed volume of an object; determining an air density and a material density from the reconstructed volume of the object; subdividing the reconstructed volume into one or more blocks, each block comprising one or more voxels; determining one or more contrast blocks within the reconstructed volume; an...