US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Nov. 25 for "Intelligent photo guidance for dentition capture" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,777, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intelligent photo guidance for dentition capture" was invented by Christopher E. Cramer (Durham, N.C.), Rajiv Venkata (San Jose, Calif.), Leela Parvathaneni (San Jose, Calif.), Phillip Thomas Harris (Cary, N.C.), Sravani Gurijala (Apex, N.C.), Svetozar Hubenov (Luzen, Switzerland), Sebastien Hareng (San Jose, Calif.), Guotu Li (Apex, N.C.), Yun Gao (Cary, N.C.) and Chad Clayton Brown (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dental treatment may include receiving one or more photo parameters to define clinically acceptable criteria for a p...