US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Aug. 5 for "Methods and systems for forming a three-dimensional model of dentition" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,943, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for forming a three-dimensional model of dentition" was invented by Guotu Li (Apex, N.C.) and Christopher E. Cramer (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for optimizing a 3D model of an individual's teeth. A 3D dental model may be reconstructed from 3D parameters. A differentiable renderer may be used to derive a 2D rendering of the individual's dentition. 2D image(s) of an individual's dentition may be obtained, and features may be extracted from the 2D image(s). Image loss between the 2...