US Patent Issued to Align Technology on April 15 for "Intraoral 3D scanning system using uniform structured light projection" (Israeli, Armenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,600, issued on April 15, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intraoral 3D scanning system using uniform structured light projection" was invented by Ofer Saphier (Rechovot, Israel), Yossef Atiya (Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Israel), Arkady Rudnitsky (Rehovot, Israel), Nir Makmel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Sergei Ozerov (Yerevan, Armenia), Tal Verker (Ofra, Israel) and Tal Levy (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanning system comprises an elongate handheld wand with a probe at a distal end, a structured light projector configured to project a uniform structured light pattern onto an object, a plura...