ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,621, issued on July 21, was assigned to IMAGOWORKS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automated method for generating prothesis from three dimensional scan data, generator generating prosthesis from three dimensional scan data and computer readable medium having program for performing the method" was invented by Junseong Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jinhyeok Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Uk Kam (Seoul, South Korea), Tae-geun Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method for generating a prosthesis from a 3D scan data, the method includes extracting prep information of a prepa...