ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,031, issued on March 25, was assigned to die:haptiker GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).
"Dental lighting system" was invented by Matthias Proske (Hohenschaeftlarn, Germany), Joerg Ostenrieder (Ebenhausen, Germany), Thomas Wolf (Munich) and Patrick Scholl (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental lighting system (10) for selectively illuminating a treatment site (12) on a patient sitting on a treatment chair (14). The system includes at least one monitoring device (32, 32') configured to determine characteristics of a treatment site (12) on a patient and at least one lighting unit (22, 24) configured to generate an illuminated area ...