US Patent Issued to Dental Imaging Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Intraoral 3D scanning with automatic charting" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,464, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dental Imaging Technologies Corp. (Quakertown, Pa.).

"Intraoral 3D scanning with automatic charting" was invented by Victor C. Wong (Pittsford, N.Y.), Jean-Marc Inglese (Bussy-Saint-Georges, France) and Edward R. Shellard (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intraoral imaging generates one or more output imaging signals from an intraoral probe and acquires multimodal image content from intraoral surface locations according to tissue response from the one or more imaging signals and associates spatial coordinates to the acquired multimodal image content. A surface contour of the ...