ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,509, issued on March 24, was assigned to LUMINX IL LTD..
"Device and method for subgingival measurement" was invented by Benny Pesach (Rosh Haayin, Israel), Ygael Grad (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Blanc Zach Lehr (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Georgy Melamed (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring regions of a tooth in a mouth including: measuring at least one surface point on a surface of the tooth with respect to an element mechanically coupled to said surface point; determining a location of at least one visible reference mechanically coupled to said surface point with respect to said element; estimating a locatio...