ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,769, issued on March 17, was assigned to STRATOVAN Corp. (Davis, Calif.) and BEAMREADERS (Kennewick, Wash.).
"Mapping and segmentation of oral maxillofacial complex and extracting clinical data" was invented by David Wiley (Davis, Calif.), Christian Woodhouse (Davis, Calif.) and David Hatcher (Kennewick, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method of constructing a dentition structure by a topographic mesh therefor, by generating one or more edges geometrically connecting one or more landmarks, the landmarks being associated with one or more physical features of a physical object, generating a mesh ...