US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Jan. 27 for "Methods and apparatuses for detecting interproximal spaces" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,215, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatuses for detecting interproximal spaces" was invented by Jonathan Coslovsky (Rehovot, Israel), Avraham Zulti (Modiin, Israel) and Ofer Saphier (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (system, device, method, and the like) is disclosed for refining a three-dimensional (3D) model, particularly 3D models of a subject's dentition. An initial 3D model is received or generated along with a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images corresponding to the 3D model. The 3D model is refined using edge boundaries of a space ar...