ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,480, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Vitaware Ltd (Exeter, Great Britain).
"Image processing method" was invented by Archil Tsiskaridze (Exeter, Great Britain) and Philippe Georges Young (Exeter, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the creation and/or use of an inference model that maps between a three-dimensional image data of an intra-oral tissue structure, e.g. shape and size of teeth roots, and a three-dimensional representation of an exposed surface of dental features of the intra-oral tissue structure, e.g. teeth crowns. In particular, the present invention proposes a method for image processi...