US Patent Issued to DOF on July 14 for "Three-dimensional scanner and scanning method using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,117, issued on July 14, was assigned to DOF INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Three-dimensional scanner and scanning method using same" was invented by Hyunsoo Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Heungsik Sim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a three-dimensional intraoral scanner and an intraoral scanning method using same, the scanner being capable of reducing a matching error generated during a three-dimensional model data generation process for all the teeth in an oral cavity, and the three-dimensional intraoral scanner and the intraoral scanning method using same, according to one embodime...