US Patent Issued to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Dental models for dental implant and related procedures" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,980, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dental models for dental implant and related procedures" was invented by Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include generating a first virtual model of a dental structure of a patient from three-dimensional scan data, identifying a first virtual surface of the first virtual model corresponding to a first portion of the soft dental surfaces that surrounds a location of the restorative object, separating the identified first virtual surface of the soft dental surfaces from at least the portion associated with hard...