US Patent Issued to THE SLEEP FACTORY on July 1 for "Dental support block, and imaging device comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,183, issued on July 1, was assigned to THE SLEEP FACTORY INC. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Dental support block, and imaging device comprising same" was invented by Young Hyon Park (Incheon, South Korea), Hyun Jin Choi (Incheon, South Korea), Jun Young Park (Incheon, South Korea) and Jun Won Park (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an auxiliary apparatus used to capture an image of teeth of a patient, and more particularly, to a support block that enables an image of teeth of the patient to be captured in a state where a natural dentition is maintained, and an imaging apparatus including ...