US Patent Issued to MEDIT on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and method using different scanned and processed intraoral images to identify and adjust teeth by comparing tooth numbers" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,546, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method using different scanned and processed intraoral images to identify and adjust teeth by comparing tooth numbers" was invented by Min Ho Chang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an intraoral image processing apparatus and an intraoral image processing method. The intraoral image processing method includes obtaining a first intraoral image generated by scanning teeth and a second intraoral image generated by scanning the teeth with an orthodontic device attached thereto, segmenting teeth of the first intraoral ima...