US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 21 for "Systems and methods for forming eruption compensation features for accommodating erupting teeth" (American, Armenian, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,615, issued on July 21, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for forming eruption compensation features for accommodating erupting teeth" was invented by Maria Lvova (Yerevan, Armenia), Vladimir Chistyakov (Moscow), Mitra Derakhshan (Herndon, Va.), Jeeyoung Choi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xi Cai (San Jose, Calif.) and Palak Mittal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for forming eruption compensation (EC) features in dental appliances for accommodating erupting teeth. Methods may include scaling a virtual tooth model by identifying a crown center line along a buccal...