ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,599, issued on June 17, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Detection of missing or ectopic teeth" was invented by Roman A. Roschin (Moscow), Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin (Moscow), Sergey Grebenkin (Moscow), Alexey Lazarev (Moscow), Dmitry Guskov (Moscow), Ivan Slepynin (Moscow), Alexey Vladykin (Balashikha, Russia), Alexander Vovchenko (Moscow) and Alexander Beliaev (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for detecting missing or ectopic teeth. At least one tooth that is missing or ectopic may be detected in a dental arch by determining that a gap between adjacent teeth of a digital model of the denta...