US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on April 14 for "Method and apparatus for multimodal soft tissue diagnostics" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,299, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Method and apparatus for multimodal soft tissue diagnostics" was invented by Thomas Ertl (Usingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for multimodal imaging of dermal and mucosal lesions. The method includes using at least two imaging modalities from which one is a 3D scan of the lesion, and, additionally providing information on the distance and angulation between scanning device and the dermis or mucosa and mapping at least the second modality over the 3D data."

The patent was filed on May 20, 2021, under Application No. 17/927,054...