US Patent Issued to Align Technology on June 16 for "Three-dimensional dental model segmentation quality assessment" (Russian, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,707, issued on June 16, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional dental model segmentation quality assessment" was invented by Andrei Semenov (Moscow), Denis Durdin (Novosibirsk, Russia), Jason Ramos (San Francisco Heredia, Costa Rica) and Sergio Santamaria Venegas (San Jose, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are apparatuses (e.g., systems) and methods for automatically assessing a segmented 3D dental model. The segmented 3D dental model may be classified by a trained machine learning classifier (a trained neural network). In some cases, the segmented 3D dental model may be ...