ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,962, issued on May 19.

"System and method for intraoral imaging and analysis for preventing dental disease" was invented by Ayush Garg (Dublin, Calif.) and Divij Vikram Motwani (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and a method for intraoral imaging and analysis for preventing a dental disease. The system receives one or more images captured by at least one camera associated with an Ultraviolet-A Light Emitting Diode (UV-A LED) of an intraoral device, and processed by a processing unit of the intraoral device. The system segments, via an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, each of t...