ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,639, issued on March 17.
"System and method for fusion of volumetric and surface scan images" was invented by Matvey Ezhov (Yerevan, Armenia), Alex Sanders (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mamat Shamshiev (Yerevan, Armenia) and Maria Golitsyna (Yerevan, Armenia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a fusion of volumetric images and surface scan images said system comprising: a processor configuring the system to: receive both a volumetric image tooth mesh and surface scan image tooth crown mesh from a same patient, registered to a similar coordinate system; segment by anatomical structure each of the registered meshes...