US Patent Issued to Align Technology on June 9 for "Estimating a surface texture of a tooth" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,699, issued on June 9, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Estimating a surface texture of a tooth" was invented by Adi Levin (Nes Tziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for estimating a surface texture of a tooth are described herein. One method embodiment includes collecting a sequence of images utilizing multiple light conditions using an intra-oral imaging device and estimating the surface texture of the tooth based on the sequence of images."

The patent was filed on Feb. 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/171,312.

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