US Patent Issued to Align Technology on April 1 for "Intraoral scanner sleeve authentication and identification" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,869, issued on April 1, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intraoral scanner sleeve authentication and identification" was invented by Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Sabina (Campbell, Calif.), Nir Makmel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel), Arad Zulti (Modi'in, Israel) and Arthur Hsieh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, including sleeves, intraoral scanning systems to use these sleeves, and methods of using the sleeve, that authenticate the sleeve for use with an intraoral scanning system. Authentication may include verifying that the sleeve is new (unused) ...