ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,910, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Luminx IL LTD (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
"Intraoral scanner" was invented by Amitai Reuvenny (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Benny Pesach (Rosh Haayin, Israel), Blanc Zach Lehr (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Ygael Grad (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental add-on for an electronic communication device having a screen and an imager, the add-on including: a body comprising: a distal portion sized and shaped to be at least partially inserted into a human mouth within, in one or more dimension, one or both dental arches; and an optical path extending from an optical element of the electronic commun...