US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on Jan. 20 for "Method and system for automating dental crown design based on artificial intelligence" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,147, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for automating dental crown design based on artificial intelligence" was invented by Hyung Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Heekyung Koh (Seoul, South Korea) and Taeyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present application is provided a method of automating a dental crown design based on artificial intelligence, the method may include: acquiring a three-dimensional intra-oral scanner image acquired from a patient and a three-dimensional dental crown mesh image designed by a d...