A61C 9/0073
Interferometric means or methods
Official title: {Interferometric means or methods, e.g. creation of a hologram}
A61C9/0073 (Interferometric means or methods) appears on 60 US grants and 65 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61C- Granted patents
- 60
- Published applications
- 65
- Assignees
- 27
- Inventors
- 86
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Focus scanning apparatus recording color17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272627 A13Shape A/S
- Dental impression digital scaling factor system and method25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174530 A1National Dentex, LLC
- Structured light with uniform illumination11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157828 A1Align Technology, Inc.
- Intraoral scanning guidance30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114968 A1Align Technology, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for displaying scanning data, device, and storage medium4 Dec 2025US 2025/0366957 A1Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of and apparatus for making a prosthesis, especially a dental prosthesis806US 4,663,720 A1987
- Method of making a prosthesis, especially a dental prosthesis489US 4,742,464 A1988
- Estimating a surface texture of a tooth167US 9,192,305 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2015
- Optical coherence tomography imaging153US 7,355,721 B2D4D Technologies, LLC · 2008
- Prioritization of three dimensional dental elements93US 9,037,439 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2015