US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Sept. 8 for "Dental object classification and 3D model modification" (Israeli, Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,263, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dental object classification and 3D model modification" was invented by Mikhail Minchenkov (Zhukovsky, Russia), Ran Katz (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Pavel Agniashvili (Moscow), Chad Clayton Brown (Cary, N.C.) and Jonathan Coslovsky (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an intraoral scanner and a computing device. The intraoral scanner generates intraoral scans of a dental site. The computing device processes the intraoral scans using a trained machine learning model to classify points of the intraoral scans into first points hav...