ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,838, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Yofo Medical Technology Co. Ltd. (Anhui, China).

"Oral cone beam X-ray imaging system and fast positioning method therefor" was invented by Wenrui Yu (Anhui, China), Yunyan Cai (Anhui, China), Ran Xu (Anhui, China) and Zhe Liu (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an oral cone beam X-ray imaging system and its fast positioning method. The working modes of the imaging system includes an oral CT shooting mode, an oral panoramic shooting mode, and a head frontal and lateral shooting mode. The system includes a source, a flat panel detector, a rotating driving...