US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 8 for "Method generation of a sub-gingival surface of a tooth" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,126, issued on July 8, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method generation of a sub-gingival surface of a tooth" was invented by Yosi Moalem (Nes-Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an optical probe with a sensing face. The optical probe to emit optical signals and receive reflected optical signals. The system includes a computing device, coupled to the optical probe, to receive intraoral scan data of a tooth. The intraoral scan data includes first optical scan data and second optical scan data. The computing device to process the received intraoral scan data to adjust the first opti...