ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,478, issued on March 3, was assigned to DENTAL MONITORING (Paris).

"Method for analysing a dental situation" was invented by Philippe Salah (Paris), Thomas Pellissard (Clichy, France), Guillaume Ghyselinck (Cantin, France) and Laurent Debraux (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a real dental situation of a patient. The method includes steps, as follows, in succession. At an updated instant, acquisition of an updated image representing a real dental scene as observed by an operator. Simulation, for a simulation instant, of the real dental scene represented on the updated image, then determination of a virtual ...