ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,800, issued on May 26, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Defect detection for dental appliances" was invented by Eduard Kopylov (Moscow), Elena Pogorelova (Zelenograd, Russia), Evgeniy Kossov (Moscow) and Igor Olkhovskiy (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automated defect detection of a dental appliance comprises receiving a plurality of images of the dental appliance, and processing the plurality of images by a processing device to determine one or more defect estimations. The method comprises processing one or more sets of defect estimations to determine one or more defect classifications, wh...