US Patent Issued to LUMINX IL on Sept. 8 for "System, device and methods for dental digital impressions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,966, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LUMINX IL LTD.

"System, device and methods for dental digital impressions" was invented by Benny Pesach (Rosh Haayin, Israel), Georgy Melamed (Ramat Gan, Israel), Blanc Zach Lehr (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Ygael Grad (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Amitai Reuvenny (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for tracking a dental tool within an oral cavity for taking and/or updating of a dental impression are described. In some embodiments, a marker, optionally a magnetic marker, is coupled to position movements of a rotatable dental tool. In some embodiments, detected movements of the...