ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,205, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Computer-implemented method and system for predicting orthodontic results based on landmark detection" was invented by Yuanfeng Zhou (Jinan, China), Chen Wang (Jinan, China) and Guangshun Wei (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for predicting orthodontic results based on landmark detection includes: acquiring a crown point cloud, a set of tooth point clouds, and tooth labels; extracting global dentition features and local tooth features, performing feature fusion on the global dentition features, tooth labels...