ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,810, issued on May 13, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Digital dental tray configured to enable 3D model generation" was invented by Yossef Atiya (Maccabim, Israel), Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Erez Lampert (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a dental tray comprising an array of cameras, wherein each camera of the first array of cameras has a fixed position and orientation relative to one or more other camera of the array of cameras, the array of cameras configured to generate a plurality of images comprising image data of at least a portion of the dental arch. The sy...