US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems for interproximal reduction planning" (American, Costa Rican, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,841, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for interproximal reduction planning" was invented by Rahul Khardekar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Artem Borovinskih (San Jose, Calif.), Rene M. Sterental (Palo Alto, Calif.), Giovanny Garro Acevedo (La Union, Costa Rica), Jason Ramos (San Jose, Costa Rica), Mitra Derakhshan (Herndon, Va.), Sergey Kurchatov (Troitsk, Russia) and Igor Kvasov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for IPR planning. One method includes identifying an overlap between a first tooth and a second tooth in a patient's dentition at a ...