US Patent Issued to SOPRO on July 14 for "Intraoral scanner, intraoral scanning system, method for performing intraoral scans and computer program product" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,036, issued on July 14, was assigned to SOPRO SA (La Ciotat, France).

"Intraoral scanner, intraoral scanning system, method for performing intraoral scans and computer program product" was invented by Claudio Giani (Varese, Italy), Giordano Pinarello (Turin, Italy), Alessandro Bailini (Milan), Francesca Nason (Milan) and Anna Cesaratto (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoral scanner for intraoral stereovision comprises a projector for projecting a dot pattern onto an object to be imaged, the projector having a radiation source and optics for generating the dot pattern from radiation emitted by the radiation source, and at ...