ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,560, issued on June 17, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems for guiding dental imaging" was invented by Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Michael Sabina (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for positioning of dental imaging devices, such as X-rays, CTs and ultrasound imaging devices. These methods and apparatuses may use an initial intraoral scan of a patient's dentition taken, e.g., using a visible light and/or infrared source, and generate an imaging plan and/or guide(s) for taking one or more penetrative images, such as X-ray images, of the patient's dentition u...