US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Nov. 25 for "Dental arch width measurement methods and systems" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,455, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dental arch width measurement methods and systems" was invented by Svetlana Makarenkova (Moscow), Ilya Agafonov (Reutov, Russia), Boris Likhtman (Pushkino, Russia), Pavel Sokolov (Moscow) and Vladimir Fedorov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for rapidly and reliably determining an arch width of a patient's dental arch. A three-dimensional (3D) model of a patient's teeth, including a target tooth, can be received. Dental features from the 3D model may be extracted. The dental features may include a point of intersection between...