US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 15 for "Prioritization of three dimensional dental elements" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,427, issued on July 15, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prioritization of three dimensional dental elements" was invented by Eric E. Kuo (San Jose, Calif.), Igor Kvasov (Dolgoprudny, Russia), Anna Egorova (Moscow) and Sergey Gagarin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for prioritization of three dimensional dental elements. The systems and methods may include displaying a perspective of a 3D digital model such that a portion of a second object is behind a first object, where the first object has a higher priority than the second object. The portion of the second object behind the firs...