US Patent Issued to 3DIO on May 26 for "Three dimensional X-ray imaging system" (Nevada, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,963, issued on May 26, was assigned to 3DIO Inc. (Orem, Utah).

"Three dimensional X-ray imaging system" was invented by D. Clark Turner (Mesquite, Nev.), Douglas P. Hansen (Spanish Fork, Utah), Thomas L. Youd (Holladay, Utah) and Keith Decker (Pleasant Grove, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three dimensional X-ray imaging systems are described in this application. In particular, this application describes a 3D dental intra-oral imaging (3DIO) system and associated methods using a series of 2D image projections. The methods include making a 3D image of an object by providing an X-ray source on a first side of a object to be imaged,...