US Patent Issued to Align Technology on March 18 for "Visualization of post-treatment outcomes for medical treatment" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,565, issued on March 18, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Visualization of post-treatment outcomes for medical treatment" was invented by Endri Dibra (Zurich) and Niko Benjamin Huber (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include obtaining an input image depicting a body part of a person and processing the input image against a set of semantic landmarks representing landmarks of the body part; obtaining a mesh model for a set of images; generating, from the mesh model and the set of semantic landmarks, a body part mesh of the person, wherein the body part mesh is an approximation of a ...