US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 21 for "Image-based longitudinal analysis" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,620, issued on July 21, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image-based longitudinal analysis" was invented by Maayan Moshe (Ramat HaSharon, Israel), Ofer Saphier (Rehovot, Israel), Shai Ayal (Shoham, Israel), Michael Lellouch (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ran Katz (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses (including devices and systems, such as intraoral scanners and software) for analyzing images of a subject's teeth. In some examples these methods may include examining the same teeth or tooth regions across different times and/or different imaging modalities, including but not lim...