US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona, Sirona Dental Systems on Feb. 10 for "Method for digital volume tomography imaging of a small volume" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,018, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.) and Sirona Dental Systems GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Method for digital volume tomography imaging of a small volume" was invented by Wolf Blecher (Hemsbach, Germany) and Michael Elvers (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in which: (a) a patient is positioned in an X-ray device; (b) a 3D scout image with reduced dose and with a predefined volume sizes and a predefined center of rotation is created; (c) on the 3D scout image, a practitioner marks the tooth (d) a software determines, based on the position of the enveloping geometry, the avai...