ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,467, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3Shape A/S (Kobenhavn K, Denmark).
"System and method for scanning a dental object" was invented by Frederik Juul (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Mette Bastrup-Larsen (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Edward Matos (Copenhagen K, Denmark) and Jesper Simonsen (Copenhagen K, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental scanning system includes an illumination unit including a light source configured to illuminate the dental object; a detector unit including a sensor configured to receive a plurality of two-dimensional images in response to the illumination of the dental object; a processor configured to genera...