ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,440, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Mars Dental AI Ltd. (Kiriyat Tivon, Israel).
"Guided injection for local anesthesia" was invented by Eyal Tsvi Zak (Kibbutz Megiddo, Israel) and Ariel Shusterman (Kiriyat Tivon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method comprising: detecting and/or segmenting a dental-related anatomical structure of a subject from a dental 3D imaging model, wherein the dental-related anatomical structure includes a target for injection of anesthesia by a dental syringe, accessing sequential frames of an oral cavity of a subject captured by an image sensor during a dental session of the su...