ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,746, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Oral care based digital imaging systems and methods for evaluating an oral care product" was invented by Reginald Edward Crutcher (Cincinnati), Ted De Castro (Newton, Mass.), Jason Duff (Cincinnati), Molly Christine Findley (Cincinnati), Peter Middleton (Cincinnati), Paul Albert Sagel (Maineville, Ohio), Faiz Feisal Sherman (Mason, Ohio), Dotan Weiss (Tel Aviv, Iceland) and Darin J. Westrich (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Oral care based digital imaging systems and methods are provided for processing information associated with image data suc...