ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,466, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Powder-free intraoral scanning and imaging system" was invented by Saradwata Sarkar (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Mark Greenwood (Granite Bay, Calif.), Mark Chang-Ming Hsieh (Peterborough, Great Britain) and James Lee Onslow (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanning system is described herein. The intraoral scanning system includes a scanning device and a processing device. The scanning device is configured to illuminate an object of interest with a burst light pattern at one or more intervals and receive a set of reflected imag...