ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,042, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARCREAL INC. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Intraoral scanner" was invented by Seung Hyun Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanner is provided, including a case including an opening formed at one end thereof, a light source unit disposed at the other end of the case and emitting light toward the opening, a first optical system disposed in the opening and reflecting the light emitted from the light source unit toward a subject and reflecting light reflected from the subject toward the light source unit, a second optical system disposed between the light source unit an...