US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Aug. 25 for "Dental appliance hook placement and visualization" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,541, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dental appliance hook placement and visualization" was invented by Svetlana Makarenkova (Moscow), Mikhail Yudashkin (Moscow), Andrey Cherkas (Krasnoznamensk, Russia), Kristina Anikina (Moscow) and Viktor Sazhaev (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for determining hook and or positioning feature placements during dental treatment planning. A patient's dentition may be scanned and/or segmented. A target tooth may be identified. Hook and or positioning feature placement may be determined based on satisfying manuf...