ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,574, issued on April 15.
"Intraoral x-ray system" was invented by Jean-Marc Inglese (Bussy-Saint-Georges, France), David Roudergues (Courbevoie, France), Arnaud Capri (Marne la Vallee, France), Vincent Loustauneau (Fontenay sous Bois, France) and Subramanyan Krishnamoorthy (Penfield, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an intraoral X-ray system comprising: an X-ray source located in an environment; a robotic arm comprising an actuatable scissor arm, the robotic arm having a first end configured to be attached to a mounting and a second end attached to the X-ray source, at least one of the first and the s...