US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 7 for "Capture of intraoral features from non-direct views" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,943, issued on July 7, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capture of intraoral features from non-direct views" was invented by Ofer Saphier (Rechovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for intraoral scanning and generation of 3D surfaces based on intraoral scans are described. In one example a system includes an intraoral scanner and a computing device operatively coupled to the intraoral scanner. The computing device receives an indication that a tool that provides supplemental surface data will be used during intraoral scanning. The computing device implements a supplemental surface da...