ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,975, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Accurate scanning of patient bite" was invented by Yosi Moalem (Nes-Ziona, Israel), Ofer Saphier (Rechovot, Israel) and Moti Ben-Dov (Tel Mond, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanning system comprises an intraoral scanner and a computing device. The intraoral scanner is to configured to generate intraoral scan data of a bite of a patient. The computing device is configured to receive the intraoral scan data of the bite of the patient during scanning of the bite of the patient, wherein each datum of the intraoral scan data shows a po...