ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,600, issued on June 17, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for dental visualization" was invented by Eric Kuo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In particular embodiments, method, apparatus and system for receiving digital representations of the initial parameters of a dentition; simulating a first orthodontic treatment process on the digital representations of the initial parameters, displaying a set of output results from the simulation of the first orthodontic treatment process, simulating a second orthodontic treatment process on the output results from the simulation of the...