ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,256, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
"Intraoral scanning body" was invented by Sarah Mohammed Alnafaiy (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmad Maniallah Al-Thobity (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanning body having an inner piece, a middle piece encasing the inner piece, and an outer piece encasing the middle piece and the inner piece. Each of the inner piece and the middle piece defines three rectangular cuts on respective outer surfaces thereof. The middle piece and the outer piece are hollow cylinders, where a rectangular projection prot...