ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,025, issued on July 29, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Intuitive intraoral scanning" was invented by Ofer Saphier (Rechovot, Israel), Shai Ayal (Shoham, Israel), Pavel Agniashvili (Moscow), Pavel Veryovkin (Krasnogorsk, Russia) and Maxim Volgin (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanning system includes an intraoral scanner and a computing device. The computing device receive a plurality of intraoral scans from the intraoral scanner during an intraoral scanning session; registers the plurality of intraoral scans together based on overlapping features of the plurality of intraoral scans; ge...