US Patent Issued to IMAGOWORKS on March 17 for "Automated method for tooth segmentation of three dimensional scan data using tooth boundary curve and computer readable medium having program for performing the method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,653, issued on March 17, was assigned to IMAGOWORKS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automated method for tooth segmentation of three dimensional scan data using tooth boundary curve and computer readable medium having program for performing the method" was invented by Seongjun Tak (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Eungjune Shim (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method includes detecting a tooth of the scan data using a first artificial intelligence neural network, extracting a tooth scan data from the scan data based on a result of a tooth detection, generating a tooth map...