ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,717, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods for delivery of dental treatment" was invented by Rene Sterental (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lou Shuman (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Maia Singer (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing delivery of dental treatment may include identifying a dental treatment plan for a patient's teeth and generating one or more first treatment tasks to implement a first phase of the dental treatment plan. The method may also include obtaining a digital representation of a dentition, generating graphical treatment instructions representing how to a...