ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,285, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Indicators that facilitate intraoral scanning" was invented by Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device of a system makes a comparison between a current image of an oral cavity of a patient and one or more previously received images of the oral cavity of the patient, the current image and the one or more previously received images having been generated by an intraoral scanner. The processing device determines an amount of overlap between a current field of view of the intraoral scanner and topography scans of the...