US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods including motion compensation in a three-dimensional scan" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,851, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods including motion compensation in a three-dimensional scan" was invented by Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and computer implemented methods that include motion compensation in a three-dimensional (3D) scan. Motion compensation can include receiving 3D scans of a dentition, registering a distorted scan of the 3D scans with a previous scan and a subsequent scan of the 3D scans, estimating a motion trajectory from the previous scan to the subsequent scan, and calculating a corrected scan for the dis...