US Patent Issued to Dental Imaging Technologies on May 5 for "Intraoral scanner with a scanning reflector and a method for calibration of a scanning reflector" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,374, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dental Imaging Technologies Corp. (Quakertown, Pa.).

"Intraoral scanner with a scanning reflector and a method for calibration of a scanning reflector" was invented by Xiaodong Tao (Rochester, N.Y.) and Chuanmao Fan (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanner is disclosed for use with a dental optical coherence tomography system. The scanner has a scanning reflector that is energizable to direct a scanning beam in a raster pattern toward a sample surface. The scanning reflector is further to direct a reflected beam from the sample surface toward a detector. The scanning ref...