US Patent Issued to Canon on July 7 for "Dental prosthetic color estimation method, information processing apparatus, dental prosthetic manufacturing method, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,944, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Dental prosthetic color estimation method, information processing apparatus, dental prosthetic manufacturing method, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroshi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiko Matsumura (Tokyo), Naru Komatsu (Tokyo) and Ryuta Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to providing a color estimation method for estimating color of a dental prosthetic and a dental prosthetic manufacturing method for coloring the dental prosthetic based on the estimated color. A dental prosthetic color estimatio...