Intraoral scanner sleeve authentication and identification
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsAvi Kopelman, Michael Sabina, Nir Makmel, Adi Levin, Arad Zulti, Arthur Hsieh
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Abstract
Apparatuses, including sleeves, intraoral scanning systems to use these sleeves, and methods of using the sleeve, that authenticate the sleeve for use with an intraoral scanning system. Authentication may include verifying that the sleeve is new (unused) and/or verifying that the sleeve is appropriate and/or intended for use with the intraoral scanning system. Once authenticated, operation parameters of the intraoral scanning system can be automatically set based on information from a scanned identifier on the sleeve.
Claims18
A sleeve for an intraoral scanner, the sleeve comprising:
- a sleeve body configured to fit onto the intraoral scanner, the sleeve body including a window formed of an optically transparent material, wherein the window is configured to align with a field of view of the intraoral scanner when the sleeve body is attached to the intraoral scanner;
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- a removable window cover attached to the window and being removable from the window for transmission of light from the intraoral scanner, the window cover including an identifier that is scannable by the intraoral scanner when the window cover is attached to the window and that identifies one or more characteristics of the sleeve.
An intraoral scanning system, the system comprising:
- an intraoral scanner;
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- a sleeve configured to fit onto the intraoral scanner, the sleeve comprising:
- a sleeve body including a window formed of an optically transparent material, wherein the window is configured to align with a field of view of the intraoral scanner when the sleeve body is attached to the intraoral scanner;
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- a removable window cover attached to the window and being removable from the window for transmission of light from the intraoral scanner, the window cover including an identifier that is scannable by the intraoral scanner when the window cover is attached to the window and that identifies one or more characteristics of the sleeve,
- wherein the intraoral scanner is configured to verify that the identifier is authenticated for the intraoral scanner by scanning the identifier, and to modify operation of the intraoral scanner based on the identifier.
An intraoral scanning scanner system, the system comprising:
- an intraoral scanner;
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- a sleeve configured to fit onto the intraoral scanner, the sleeve comprising:
- a sleeve body including a window formed of an optically transparent material, wherein the window is configured to align with a field of view of the intraoral scanner when the sleeve body is attached to the intraoral scanner;
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- a removable window cover attached to the window and being removable from the window for transmission of light from the intraoral scanner, the window cover including an identifier that is scannable by the intraoral scanner when the window cover is attached to the window and that identifies one or more characteristics of the sleeve,
- wherein the intraoral scanner is configured to verify that the identifier is authenticated for the intraoral scanner by scanning the identifier, and to automatically set a particular use mode of the intraoral scanner based on the scanned identifier, wherein the particular use mode dictates one or more scanning parameters of the intraoral scanner and is one of a number of different use modes of the intraoral scanner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.