ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,901, issued on April 22, was assigned to 3DIO Inc. (Orem, Utah).
"Three dimensional X-ray imaging system" was invented by D. Clark Turner (Mesquite, Nev.), Douglas P. Hansen (Spanish Fork, Utah) and Thomas L. Youd (Holladay, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three-dimensional X-ray imaging systems are described in this application. In particular, this application describes a 3D dental intra-oral imaging (3DIO) system that collects a series of 2D image projections. The 2D images are taken at different X-ray source positions located on a circle that defines the base of a regular geometric cone with the intraoral sensor located at the ...