ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,760, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Reflection suppression for intraoral scanner" was invented by Arkady Rudnitsky (Rehovot, Israel), Eliahou Franklin Nizard (Jerusalem) and Shlomi Buganim (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for intraoral scanning comprises an elongate wand comprising a probe at a distal end of the elongate wand, one or more structured light projectors coupled to the elongate wand at a distal end of the elongate wand, the one or more structured light projectors configured to project a light pattern comprising a plurality of structured light fe...