ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,052, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VELMENI INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for dental image analysis" was invented by Mini Suri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sohaib Laraba (Ghlin, Belgium), Alan Friedel (Hollywood, Fla.), Y. Samata (Andhra Pradesh, India), Elias Ennadifi (Mons, Belgium), Nour Islam Mokhtari (Muret, France), Housseyne Nadour (Grenoble, France), Poonam Gupta (Winter Garden, Fla.) and Tin Luu (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for analyzing dental radiographs use deep neural network architectures, model training procedures and data processing method for automated dental charting an...