US Patent Issued to Ormco on March 4 for "Methods for orthodontic treatment planning with augmented visual analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,504, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ormco Corp. (Brea, Calif.).

"Methods for orthodontic treatment planning with augmented visual analysis" was invented by Evan Yifeng Tsai (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Bindu Saran A. p. a. (Irvine, Calif.) and Barteld Wind (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for orthodontic treatment planning include modifying a digital picture of a patient based on a tooth model produced during simulated orthodontic treatment after movement of at least one model tooth to produce a modified digital image depicting the at least one model tooth after movement. The method includes matching a...