ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,507, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Oral image processing device and oral image processing method" was invented by Dong Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Bin Im (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments, disclosed are a device and method for processing an intraoral image. The disclosed method of processing an intraoral image includes displaying the intraoral image based on a scan region of interest having a first size, detecting a predetermined event, based on detecting the predetermined event, adjusting the size of the scan region of interest from the firs...