ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,158, issued on April 29, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).
"Intraoral measurement device" was invented by Takashi Kurosawa (Hachioji, Japan), Atsushi Nagaoka (Okazaki, Japan), Yoshihiro Inagaki (Hachioji, Japan) and Mohdmakhtar Nurnabila (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral measurement device includes: a device main body that holds a base end side of a prism by a housing, the housing accommodating an illumination member and an imaging member, a cover member that is attached to the device main body in a state of covering, with a space part interposed in between, a distal end side of the prism arranged...