ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,716, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Automated processing of dental scans using geometric deep learning" was invented by Jonathan D. Gandrud (Woodbury, Minn.), Alexandra R. Cunliffe (St. Paul, Minn.), James D. Hansen (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Cameron M. Fabbri (St. Paul, Minn.), Wenbo Dong (Lakeville, Minn.), En-Tzu Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Jianbing Huang (Shoreview, Minn.), Himanshu Nayar (Mountain View, Calif.), Guruprasad Somasundaram (Plymouth, Minn.), Jineng Ren (Fuzhou City, China), Joseph C. Dingeldein (Hudson, Wis.), Seyed Amir Hossein Hosseini (St. Paul, Minn.), Steven C. Demlow (Mendota Heights, Minn.) and Benjamin...