US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Sept. 15 for "Photo-based dental attachment detection" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,019, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Photo-based dental attachment detection" was invented by Christopher E. Cramer (Durham, N.C.), Chad Clayton Brown (Cary, N.C.) and Guotu Li (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dental treatment may include receiving a plurality of images of a patient's dentition, identifying, from the plurality of images, individual teeth of the patient's dentition, detecting, from the plurality of images, one or more attachments on the patient's dentition, assigning, based on each of the plurality of images, each of the one or more attachments to ...