US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Nov. 11 for "Machine learning scoring system and methods for tooth position assessment" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,465, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine learning scoring system and methods for tooth position assessment" was invented by Guotu Li (Apex, N.C.), Christopher E. Cramer (Durham, N.C.), Chad Clayton Brown (Cary, N.C.) and Anton Spiridonov (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for scoring a post-treatment tooth position of a patient's teeth. Raw features of the patient's teeth may be determined from a 3D model of the patient's teeth. Engineered features may be created based on the raw features, which may be applied to a classifier trained to provide a post-treat...