US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Jan. 13 for "Computer-implemented method and system for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) model of a subject's dentition in a user interface for stages of a treatment plan" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,206, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computer-implemented method and system for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) model of a subject's dentition in a user interface for stages of a treatment plan" was invented by Konstantin Yuryev (Moscow), Vasily Stavenko (Moscow) and Andrey Verizhnikov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of representing user edits or modifications of a treatment plan for a dental apparatus (e.g., one or a series of aligners) by managing an original clinical data set and a set of modifications of the clinical data set. Also described herein are methods of di...