US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on Sept. 1 for "Dental procedures" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,254, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Dental procedures" was invented by Hans-Christian Schneider (Einhausen, Germany), David Schader (Burstadt, Germany) and Helmut Seibert (Alsbach-Hahnlein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings relate to a method for transforming a digital 3D dental model to a 2D dental image, the method including: providing, at least two selected images from the 3D dental model; converting, each of the selected images, to a respective color component of a color model; obtaining, by combining the respective color components, the 2D image in a computer-read...