US Patent Issued to Align Technology on March 4 for "Methods for visualizing treatment outcomes" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,506, issued on March 4, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for visualizing treatment outcomes" was invented by Yingjie Li (Cary, N.C.), Chao Shi (Morrisville, N.C.), Zelko Relic (Pleasanton, Calif.), Michael Alan Stocks (Holly Springs, N.C.), Andrey Bushev (Morrisville, N.C.), Ya Xue (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Eric P. Meyer (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for visualizing treatment outcomes are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining a first 2D image of a patient's teeth from a mobile device, and obtaining an arch model representing an outcome for the patient's...