ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,172, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SMILECLOUD SRL (Timisoara, Romania).

"Computer implemented methods for dental design" was invented by Florin-Nicolae Cofar (Dumbravita, Romania), Eric Van Dooren (Wilrijk, Belgium), Mihai Simonia (Timisoara, Romania), Cristian Diaconescu (Timisoara, Romania), Radu-Florin Sarghe (Timisoara, Romania) and Cristian-Florin Marta (Timisoara, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of generating a dental design comprising the steps of: a) displaying a 2D image of a smile containing at least two teeth; b) displaying a plurality of visual objects, preferably including a lowe...