ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,414, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Clinical settings service for medical application" was invented by Maria Vakhnovetskaya (Moscow), Anton Egorov (Moscow), Alexey Shatunov (Moscow), Artem Nosenko (Reutov City, Russia), Dmitriy Nikolaevich Pavlov (Naro-Fominsk, Russia), Igor Kanel (Cary, N.C.), Rostislav Koryakov (Lyubertsy, Russia), Sergey Prokopets (Ramenskoye, Russia), Nilesh Kontamwar (Pune, India), Nikolay Konovalov (Volzhskii, Russia) and Egor Sedov (Istra, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a first computing device that is configured to receive, at a clinical...