US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on March 25 for "Measurement and data communication device for an intraoral dental radiology system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,097, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Measurement and data communication device for an intraoral dental radiology system" was invented by Ulrich Schulze-Ganzlin (Lorsch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement and data communication device for use in or with an intraoral dental radiology system comprising: an x-ray data management unit having a first communication means for retrieving at least x-ray exposure data, and a processing means for processing at least the retrieved data; an intraoral x-ray generation unit having an x-ray source for exposing at least part of a patient jaw wi...