US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Aug. 5 for "Automatic application of doctor's preferences workflow using statistical preference analysis" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,944, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic application of doctor's preferences workflow using statistical preference analysis" was invented by Roman A. Roschin (Moscow), Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin (Moscow), Dmitry Kirsanov (Moscow), Grigoriy Yazykov (Balashikha, Russia), Ilfat Sabirov (Zelenodolsk, Russia), Ruslan Matvienko (Moscow) and Vasily Paraketsov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for automatic treatment planning, including recommendation systems, quality assurance, error prevention, text mining, text matching, and treatment planning optimization....