US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on March 18 for "Intra-oral bite device and method of recording an anatomical feature of a patient by using the intra-oral bite device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,255, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Intra-oral bite device and method of recording an anatomical feature of a patient by using the intra-oral bite device" was invented by Susanne Maur (Bensheim, Germany) and Markus Hulsbusch (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an intra-oral bite device for use with an x-ray recording apparatus for recording the image of at least one oral area of a patient, located by the intra-oral bite device."

The patent was filed on June 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/619,424.

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