ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,999, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Distributed intraoral scanning system" was invented by Edi Fridman (Rishon Le Zion, Israel), Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel), Abraham Albert Burbea (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ofer Sagi (Petach Tikva, Israel), Shai Farkash (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Ran Katz (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments set forth herein, an intraoral scanning system includes a first intraoral scanner, a second intraoral scanner, and a computing device wirelessly connected to both the first intraoral scanner and the second intraoral scanner. The computing...