ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,202, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for segmenting dental scans" was invented by Vitaliy Vladimirovich Chernov (Moscow), Dmitry Zubatkin (Moscow), Aleksandr Sergeevich Karsakov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Mikhail Nikolaevich Rychagov (Moscow), Yury A. Brailov (Moscow), Ekaterina Tolstaya (Moscow), Sergey Borisovich Surov (Zelenogradsk, Russia) and Dmitry Yurievich Chekh (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for segmenting dental scans. First and second segmented volumes of scan data may be formed, where the first segmented volume may have a lower r...