ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,393, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Qisda Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Oral stereoscopic scanning device capable of detecting the tooth surface outline and accurately checking whether the tooth is decayed" was invented by Chih-Ming Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ying-Fang Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Cheng-Chieh Juan (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stereoscopic scanning device is applied by a stereoscopic scanning method and includes a projection module and an imaging module. The projection module emits a visible beam to a structural light generator to project a structural light pattern onto a target object, and further emi...