US Patent Issued to Align Technology on June 10 for "Bite setting for dental treatment planning" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,720, issued on June 10, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bite setting for dental treatment planning" was invented by Anatoliy Boltunov (Moscow), Yury Brailov (Moscow), Fedor Chelnokov (Khimki Town, Russia), Roman Roschin (Moscow) and David Mason (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and non-transitory computing device readable media for bite setting in dental treatment planning. In some examples, the methods may include using images and a three-dimensional (3D) model of a dentition. Points may be marked on the 3D model corresponding to points marked in the images of first and s...