ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,039, issued on July 29, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Guidance for scanner-based interaction with intraoral scanning system" was invented by Michael Sabina (Campbell, Calif.) and Leon Rasovsky (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning system comprises an intraoral scanner to capture scan data of a dental site and a computing device to generate a 3D rendering of the dental site. The scanner comprises one or more input devices configured to provide manual interaction with the computing device, where: a first activation of the input device(s) causes the scanning system to enter an insp...