US Patent Issued to Infinisense Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Method and intraoral scanner for detecting the topography of the surface of a translucent object, in particular a dental object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,724, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infinisense Technologies GmbH (Munich).

"Method and intraoral scanner for detecting the topography of the surface of a translucent object, in particular a dental object" was invented by Patrick Wissmann (Munich) and Nicolas Emanuel Ulrich (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and intraoral scanner are provided for detecting topography of the surface by at least partly superimposing a first and a second sub-topography. Each sub-topography is detected by projecting a total measurement pattern onto a respective sub-region of the surface by a projection device. The total measurement pattern...