ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,648, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for treatment using domain-specific treatment protocols" was invented by Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel), Anton Lapshin (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Behnam J. Foroodian (Livermore, Calif.), Eric P. Meyer (Pleasanton, Calif.), Konstantin Tenzin (Balashikha, Russia), Andrey Chekhonin (Moscow), Pavel Sokolov (Moscow), Rene M. Sterental (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jason Ramos (San Jose, Costa Rica), Evgeniy Malashkin (Moscow), Anna Sivakova (Moscow) and Michael Flanagan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The example systems, m...