US Patent Issued to DENTLYTEC G.P.L. on March 25 for "Intraoral scanner" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,231, issued on March 25, was assigned to DENTLYTEC G.P.L. LTD. (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

"Intraoral scanner" was invented by Benny Pesach (Rosh Haayin, Israel) and Amitai Reuvenny (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intraoral scanning, including introducing an intraoral scanner (IOS) head into an oral cavity, acquiring an image of a field of view (FOV), processing the acquired FOV image and adjusting at least one image acquisition parameter based on said processing, and an intraoral scanner (IOS) including an IOS head including at least one imager imaging a field of view (FOV), at least on light emitter that...