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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Colgate-palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Michael Pacelli, West Caldwell, NJ (US);
Hrebesh Molly Subhash, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Michael Fitzgerald, Oakhurst, NJ (US);
Harsh Mahendra Trivedi, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Colgate-Palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61C 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0088 (2013.01); A61B 5/0071 (2013.01); A61B 5/7445 (2013.01); A61B 2576/00 (2013.01); A61C 17/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
An oral care evaluation process may include: illuminating soft oral tissue within an oral cavity with a light source emitting a spectrum of light which induces fluorescence in an organic compound; generating image data for an image of the soft oral tissue while illuminating the soft oral tissue, the image comprising a plurality of pixels; and evaluating oral hygiene using a programmable processor programmed to assess an attribute of each pixel of the image.