ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,822, issued on May 12, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).
"Deep learning for automated smile design" was invented by Cameron M. Fabbri (St. Paul, Minn.), Wenbo Dong (Lakeville, Minn.), James L. Graham II (Woodbury, Minn.) and Cody J. Olson (Ham Lake, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying teeth after planned orthodontic treatment in order to show persons how their smiles will look after the treatment. The method includes receiving a digital 3D model of teeth or rendered images of teeth, and an image of a person such as a digital photo. The method uses a generator network to prod...