ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,650, issued on June 16, was assigned to J. MORITA MFG. CORP. (Kyoto, Japan).

"System to remove from an image unnecessary objects identified by an intraoral scanner" was invented by Ryosuke Kaji (Kyoto, Japan) and Mikinori Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identification apparatus includes an input interface to which position data including position information of each of a plurality of objects is input, and processing circuitry that is configured to identify at least one object among the plurality of objects based on the position data that is input from the input interface and an estimation model that is train...