ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,975, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).
"Intraoral X-ray sensor for automatic exposure control" was invented by Ulrich Schulze-Ganzlin (Lorsch, Germany) and Kai Lindenberg (Wersau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an intraoral X-ray sensor for use with an intraoral X-ray system having an automatic exposure control (AEC) functionality, characterized in that the intraoral X-ray sensor includes an exposure analysis unit, an imaging X-ray detector, and a communication interface, wherein a scout shot or scout video stream received from the imaging X-ray detector is a...