ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,446, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for tooth modeling" was invented by Eric Kuo (San Jose, Calif.), Vadim Matov (San Jose, Calif.) and Jihua Cheng (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for modeling a patient's tooth are provided. In some embodiments, a system includes a scanner configured to generate image data of a partial portion of a crown of a patient's tooth, a memory, and one or more processors operably coupled to the scanner and to the memory. The one or more processors can be configured to perform operations including: receivin...