US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Nov. 11 for "Multi-modality dental x-ray imaging device and methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,297, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Multi-modality dental x-ray imaging device and methods" was invented by Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Jianping Lu (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-modality dental x-ray imaging devices, systems, and methods. In some embodiments, an x-ray imaging system is operable in cone-beam computed tomography, two-dimensional intraoral x-ray, and intraoral tomosynthesis imaging modes. In some embodiments, the device includes a rotatable gantry, an x-ray source array attached to the rotatable gantry and includ...