US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Feb. 25 for "Generating a modified patient image for an orthodontic treatment plan" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,926, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating a modified patient image for an orthodontic treatment plan" was invented by Dmitry Mednikov (Moscow), Svetlana Makarenkova (Moscow), Pavel Pokotilov (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aleksandr Zhulin (Moscow) and Boris Likhtman (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, systems, and devices including: accessing a 3D model including a virtual representation of a patient's dentition at a treatment stage of an orthodontic treatment plan; obtaining an image of the patient's face and at least a portion of the patient's dentition; projecting the obtained i...