US Patent Issued to Dentsply Sirona on Oct. 6 for "Optimization of extraoral panoramic images through model-based prior knowledge of the patient's jaw arch form" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,463, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).

"Optimization of extraoral panoramic images through model-based prior knowledge of the patient's jaw arch form" was invented by Stefan Eichner (Heidelberg, Germany) and Michael Elvers (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method including: (S1) Determining the jaw arch form as a model-based prior knowledge about the anatomy of a patient based on one or more previous panoramic images or 3D images or one or more optical 3D scans of the patient; (S2) Determining a patient-specific x-ray device imaging trajectory for the panor...