US Patent Issued to Align Technology on April 22 for "Using a prior three-dimensional model to faciliate intraoral scanning" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,016, issued on April 22, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using a prior three-dimensional model to faciliate intraoral scanning" was invented by Gilad Furst (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanner system includes an intraoral scanner having an imaging device and a sensing face, and a computing device, communicatively coupled to the intraoral scanner. The computing device receives a first intraoral images of a three-dimensional intraoral object of a patient generated by the intraoral scanner corresponding to an intraoral scanning of the three-dimensional intraoral object of th...