ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. D1,130,742, issued on June 16, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.) and Sirona Dental Systems GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Handheld intraoral optical scanner" was invented by Moritz Manderscheid (Bensheim, Germany), Fabrizio Confalonieri (Bensheim, Germany), Martin Seib (Bensheim, Germany), Tobias Tschoeke (Bensheim, Germany), Martin Wohanka (Bensheim, Germany), Benjamin Kuerbiss (Bensheim, Germany), Hendrik Breitbach (Bensheim, Germany), Dirk Einspaenner (Bensheim, Germany), Andreas Ries (Bensheim, Germany), Stefan Krust (Bensheim, Germany) and Tobias Schulz (Bensheim, Germany).

The patent was filed on Aug. 29, 2024, under Application No. D/524,591.

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