ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,978, issued on July 29, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intraoral image processing apparatus, and intraoral image processing method" was invented by Ho Taik Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an intraoral image processing method and an intraoral image processing apparatus. The intraoral image processing method according to an embodiment may include: obtaining a three-dimensional oral cavity model of an oral cavity; obtaining curvature information of the three-dimensional oral cavity model; obtaining roughness information of the three-dimensional oral cavity model, based on the curva...