ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,336, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).
"Apparatus and method for the generation of dental images with height-specific dose application" was invented by Susanne Maur (Bensheim, Germany) and Stefan Eichner (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extraoral dental X-ray apparatus for imaging of a patient in the dental region including: a radiator array having at least two individual radiators each for emitting X-rays, and offset at least along a predetermined direction (z); and an X-ray detector for at least partially detecting the X-rays emitted by the individual radiators, the radiator ...