ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,971, issued on March 31, was assigned to DENTAL MONITORING (Paris).

"Method for analyzing a dental situation of a patient" was invented by Thomas Pellissard (Paris) and Guillaume Ghyselinck (Cantin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a neural network intended to analyze a dental situation of an updated patient. A historical learning database is created that relates to a dental body and to a spatial attribute associated with the dental body. The historical learning database includes more than 1,000 historical records, with each historical record relating to a respective historical patient. Each record includi...