US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 29 for "Automatic segmentation quality assessment for secondary treatment plans" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,016, issued on July 29, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic segmentation quality assessment for secondary treatment plans" was invented by Vasily Paraketsov (Moscow), Grigoriy Yazykov (Balashikha, Russia) and Andrey Romanov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are apparatuses (e.g., systems) and methods for assisting in generating and segmenting a 3D dental model of a subject's dentition. A 3D dental model may be generated from a dental scan. The apparatuses described herein can determine if the subject has previously undergone a dental or orthodontic treatment, and the 3D dental mod...