US Patent Issued to Align Technology on May 27 for "Intraoral scanner with illumination sequencing and controlled polarization" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,819, issued on May 27, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intraoral scanner with illumination sequencing and controlled polarization" was invented by Yossef Y. Atiya (Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Israel), Maayan Moshe (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Ofer Saphier (Rechovot, Israel), Shai Ayal (Shoham, Israel), Raphael Levy (Jerusalem) and Tal Verker (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanner includes a probe with a sensing face, patterned light sources that are coupled to the probe, un-patterned light sources coupled to the probe, near infrared (NIR) light sources couple to the probe, cameras coupled ...