US Patent Issued to Align Technology on March 25 for "Systems and methods for taking images of a patient's teeth with a mobile device" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,905, issued on March 25, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for taking images of a patient's teeth with a mobile device" was invented by Eric P. Meyer (Pleasanton, Calif.), Roman A. Roschin (Moscow), Tzishing Jesse Lim (Mountain View, Calif.), Palak Mittal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephan Albert Alexandre Dumothier (Houston), Norman C. Su (San Jose, Calif.) and Huameng Ivan Chu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for taking images of a patient's teeth for tracking a progress of an orthodontic procedure. The methods and systems include a mobile device holder wi...