ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,213, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Viewing trajectory for 3D dental model" was invented by Ofer Saphier (Rechovot, Israel), Shai Ayal (Shoham, Israel), Sergei Ozerov (Moscow), Maayan Moshe (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Sergey Chezhin (Moscow), Konstantin Kryzhanovsky (Moscow), Pavel Agniashvili (Moscow), Sergey Gagarin (Moscow), Ilya Arkhipovskiy (Moscow), Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Leon Rasovsky (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Sabina (Campbell, Calif.) and Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to techniques for real-time and post-scan visua...