ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,879, issued on June 24, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Visual prosthetic and orthodontic treatment planning" was invented by Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improved visual prosthetic and orthodontic treatment planning are provided herein. In some aspects, a method for preparing a tooth of a patient is disclosed. The method may comprise building a model of a dentition of the patient including a model of the initial shape of tooth. The method may also include determining a final prepared shape of the tooth. In some aspects, the method may also include g...