US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Nov. 25 for "Three-dimensional tooth modeling using an estimation of an imaging process of an x-ray imaging device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,459, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional tooth modeling using an estimation of an imaging process of an x-ray imaging device" was invented by Fuming Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vadim Matov (San Jose, Calif.) and Jihua Cheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scan model that is a mathematical model to simulate an imaging process performed by an x-ray imaging device that created a two-dimensional x-ray image of at least one tooth is generated. The scan model uses an initial estimate of one or more parameters of the x-ray imaging device. The one or more parameters ...