US Patent Issued to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY on April 7 for "Method for tracking, predicting, and proactively correcting malocclusion and related issues" (American, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,143, issued on April 7, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method for tracking, predicting, and proactively correcting malocclusion and related issues" was invented by David Mason (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Douglas Brandt (San Pablo, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for predicting a future dental or orthodontic condition(s) are provided. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for calculating a future position of an intraoral object of a patient's intraoral cavity is provided. The method can include receiving first and second digital data representative of an actual state of th...