US Patent Issued to MEDIT on Sept. 8 for "Image processing method and image processing apparatus using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,249, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image processing method and image processing apparatus using same" was invented by Jong Woong Baek (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Mok Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method according to the present invention includes a scan step of obtaining image data by scanning an object including teeth, a step of determining caries of the teeth from the image data, and a step of displaying the image data in which the caries has been determined."

The patent was filed on Oct. 7, 2021, under Application No. 18/033,171.

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