US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Method for automatic segmentation of a dental arch" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,460, issued on July 14.

"Method for automatic segmentation of a dental arch" was invented by Olivier Querbes (Vallesvilles, France) and Veronique Querbes-Duret (Vallesvilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for automatic segmentation of a dental arch that comprises acquiring a three-dimensional surface of the dental arch, in order to obtain a three-dimensional representation comprising a set of vertices, generating virtual views from the three-dimensional representation, projecting the three-dimensional representation onto each two-dimensional virtual view, in order to obtain an image represent...