US Patent Issued to DSi on Oct. 27 for "Intraoral shape acquisition device and intraoral shape acquisition method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,302, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to DSi Corp. (Tokyo).

"Intraoral shape acquisition device and intraoral shape acquisition method" was invented by Hiroshi Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral shape acquisition device 1 capable of accurately acquiring an intraoral shape of a saliva, blood or other adherent area or a subgingival margin area includes a scanner 111 for acquiring an intraoral shape by imaging the inside of the mouth and an air blower 113 for blowing compressed air, the air blower 113 being capable of The air blower 113 blows the compressed air against the object to be imaged when the scanner 111 per...