US Patent Issued to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Aligner stage analysis to obtain mechanical interactions of aligners and teeth for treatment planning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,716, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Aligner stage analysis to obtain mechanical interactions of aligners and teeth for treatment planning" was invented by Iman Shojaei (San Jose, Calif.) and Reza Shirazi Aghjari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of simulating, modeling, and validating orthodontic treatment are disclosed. The method may include designing an orthodontic treatment system or force system, generative a displacement field between a first position of a patient's teeth and a second position, modeling the three-dimensional force-displacement model...