US Patent Issued to Align Technology on March 31 for "Dental analysis with missing teeth prediction" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,972, issued on March 31, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dental analysis with missing teeth prediction" was invented by Alexander Pimenov (Moscow), Rene M. Sterental (Palo Alto, Calif.), Valery Prokoshev (Moscow), Irina Ivanova (Moscow), Dmitry Mednikov (Moscow), Boris Likhtman (Pushkino, Russia), Alexander Strizhev (Moscow) and Svetlana Makarenkova (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and apparatuses for analyzing a patient's dental arches in order to generate a treatment plan for the dentition. In particular described herein are methods and apparatuses for analyzing a patien...