ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,106, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ARCREAL INC. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Intraoral scanner" was invented by Seung Hyun Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyong Kook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanner includes a case having an opening part at one end thereof, a light source part at the other end of the case and configured to emit light, a first optical system including a first reflector to reflect the light emitted from the light source part and a second reflector disposed apart from the first reflector to reflect the light reflected by the first reflector toward the opening part, a second optica...