US Patent Issued to IMAGOWORKS on March 24 for "Method for deforming shape of tooth model, apparatus for deforming shape of tooth model, computer readable medium having program for performing the method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,504, issued on March 24, was assigned to IMAGOWORKS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for deforming shape of tooth model, apparatus for deforming shape of tooth model, computer readable medium having program for performing the method" was invented by Dong Uk Kam (Seoul, South Korea), Taeseok Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jinhyeok Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae-guen Son (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deforming a shape of a tooth model includes generating a plurality of deformation shape models by deforming a tooth template model based on tooth scan data and generating a blended shape model by pe...