ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,062, issued on April 1, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Three-dimensional intraoral scanner" was invented by Eun Gil Cho (Gunpo-si, South Korea) and Seung Jin Lee (Gunpo-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a three-dimensional intraoral scanner specifically comprising: a case which can be inserted into and withdrawn from the oral cavity, and has an opening portion which is open to allow the form of the inside of the oral cavity (hereinafter, referred to as an 'image') to be incident into the case in the form of light via an end portion thereof; at least one camera which is...