ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,286, issued on April 14, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Power sources for wireless intraoral scanners" was invented by Edi Fridman (Rishon le Zion, Israel) and Moshe Alboher (Tsoran, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments set forth herein, an intraoral scanner comprises a body, and a probe at one end of the body, the probe comprising a scanner head. The intraoral scanner further comprises a wireless communication module disposed within the body, and one or more optical sensor to receive light that enters the scanner head and generate intraoral scan data based on the light, wherein the wirele...