US Patent Issued to MEDIT on March 24 for "Oral image processing device and oral image processing method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,201, issued on March 24, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Oral image processing device and oral image processing method" was invented by Dong Hwa Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Du Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an intraoral image processing method and an intraoral image processing apparatus. The intraoral image processing method includes obtaining an intraoral image generated by scanning teeth, segmenting teeth of the intraoral image, generating a customized curve based on one or more teeth included in the intraoral image, and obtaining a fi...