ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,934, issued on May 26.
"Systems, devices and methods related to periodontal measurements" was invented by Paul Kwon (Quincy, Wash.) and Stephanie Kwon (Quincy, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method for measuring a periodontal condition can include generating or obtaining radiograph data for a tooth and a respective bone structure, generating or obtaining surface data for the tooth, the surface data including surface information of a gum tissue associated with the tooth, and combining the radiograph data and the surface data such that a feature of the tooth in the radiograph data substantially matches with ...