ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,014, issued on July 29, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dynamic three-dimensional occlusogram" was invented by Vadim Matov (San Jose, Calif.), Jihua Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Fuming Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Kenji Tan (Mountain House, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating a three-dimensional occlusogram are disclosed. One method includes determining a virtual three dimensional (3D) mesh model object of at least one tooth of a patient and displaying the determined virtual 3D mesh model object of at least one tooth of a patient wherein the 3D mesh model object includes a p...