ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,466, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Oxygen saturation mapping for intraoral scanning" was invented by Yosi Moalem (Ness-Ziona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of generating a blood oxygen saturation map of a patient's gingiva may include an intraoral scanner, a display, a processor, and memory comprising instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor may cause the system to generate, using the intraoral scanner, 3D scan data of a first portion of a dentition of a patient including a first portion of a gingiva of the patient. The system may generate, using the ...