ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,312, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).
"Method for acquiring a dental object" was invented by Ciamak Abkai (Heddesheim, Germany) and Tim Braun (Grob-Gerau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for acquiring a dental object of a patient with an object volume, in particular at least a part of a skull, an upper jaw and/or a lower jaw. To do so, a plurality of segment volume ranges are defined in the object volume, where the segment volume ranges overlap at most partially and directions of the segment volume ranges are not parallel to one another. The image data of the s...