ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,018, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to 3Shape A/S (Kobenhavn K, Denmark).

"Intraoral scanning system and method for using remote resources" was invented by Jesper Lomborg Manigoff (Copenhagen K, Denmark) and Poul Martin Ravn (Copenhagen K, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The intraoral scanning system includes an intraoral scanning device configured to acquire light information reflected from a dental object and further includes one or more processors connected to the intraoral scanning device. The one or more processors are configured to determine, in real time, surface information from the light information, and generate a t...