ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,252, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SOTA CLOUD Corp. (Orange, Calif.).

"Dental imaging system utilizing artificial intelligence" was invented by Dustin Johnson (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for training and utilizing deep convolutional neural networks to perform diagnostic and image enhancement operations on images of dentition uses digital images and other auxiliary parameters as inputs for a convolutional neural network. The neural network can output a tooth segmentation map, tooth identifiers, a probability map indicating the presence of caries, cavities or other dental anomalies/condi...