ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,433, issued on July 15, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Intraoral scanning apparatus" was invented by Gilad Elbaz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Erez Lampert (Rehovot, Israel), Yossef Atiya (Modlin-Maccabim-Reut, Israel), Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ofer Saphier (Rehovot, Israel), Maayan Moshe (R'anana, Israel), Shai Ayal (Shoham, Israel), Michael Sabina (Campbell, Calif.), Eric Kuo (San Jose, Calif.), Assaf Weiss (Yavne, Israel), Doron Malka (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eliahou Franklin Nizard (Jerusalem) and Ido Tishel (Kfar Bilu, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for generating and displayi...