ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,151, issued on July 15, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Analysis and visualization of dental arch over time" was invented by Sergei Ozerov (Moscow), Ofer Saphier (Rechovot, Israel), Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel), Pavel Razumovskiy (Tambov, Russia), Michael Sabina (Campbell, Calif.), Mikhail Dyachenko (Moscow), Rene M. Sterental (Palo Alto, Calif.), Partha Dey (San Jose, Calif.), Roman A. Roschin (Moscow), Anton Gavrilov (Moscow) and Leonid Vyacheslavovich Grechishnikov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device may execute instructions from a computer reada...