US Patent Issued to Align Technology on March 17 for "Machine learning dental segmentation system and methods using graph-based approaches" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,656, issued on March 17, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine learning dental segmentation system and methods using graph-based approaches" was invented by Christopher E. Cramer (Durham, N.C.), Pavel Agniashvili (Moscow) and Chad Clayton Brown (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for automatically segmenting a 3D model of a patient's teeth. A patient's dentition may be scanned. The scan data may be converted into a 3D model, including a graph-based representation of the 3D model. The graph-based representation can be input into a machine learning model to tr...