Align Technology, Inc.

Enrique Soltero Borrego

Alexey Kalinichenko

Jack Shaw

Mehdi Mojdeh

Gabor Lukacs

Arthur George Butz

Jun Sato

Shiva Prasad Sambu

Andrey Cherkas

Stephan Albert Alexandre Dumothier

Anatoliy Parpara

Israel Velazquez

Lance Robert Pickens

Ivan Kharpalev

Paren Shah

Kwan Ho

James Nishimuta

Wesly Wong

Enrique Jonathan Guzman Olivas

Kevin Daniel Rodriguez Trujillo

Erick Enriquez De Anda

Jose Kiyotaka Blanco Romo

Ben Castricone

Gabriela Perez Vallejo

Miguel Angel Hurtado Soltero

Ari Siletz

Omar Barraza Alvarez

Paren Indravadan Shah

Carlos Alberto Garcia Carmona

A system includes a mold of a dental arch of a patient. The mold includes teeth extending from a first distal end of the dental arch to a second distal end of the dental arch. An orthodontic aligner is to be formed over the teeth of the mold. The teeth of the mold are shaped to correspond to tooth-receiving cavities of the orthodontic aligner. The system includes a pre-fabricated attachment that includes a traceability component configured to be used to determine one or more identifiers corresponding to the mold. The pre-fabricated attachment further includes a handling component configured to be secured by a robot or person to transport the mold and the pre-fabricated attachment during production of the orthodontic aligner.

Attachments for fabricated custom objects

Implementations describe systems and methods for manufacturing and performing quality assessment of dental appliances. In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a dental appliance comprises receiving, at a holder, a feature of the dental appliance, the feature comprising a first surface having a first shape, wherein the holder holds the feature of the dental appliance at a reference position. The method further includes automatically placing an object against the feature at the reference position using a robot arm, wherein the object comprises a second surface having a second shape that mates with the first shape. The method further includes applying pressure to press the object against the feature of the dental appliance and bonding the object to the feature of the dental appliance while applying the pressure.

Orthodontic aligner manufacturing and quality assessment system

Embodiments relate to a pre-fabricated attachment for fabricating custom objects. In one embodiment, a system includes a mold and a pre-fabricated attachment. The mold includes a physical model of a dental arch of a patient and one or more first features. An orthodontic aligner is to be formed over the physical model. The pre-fabricated attachment includes one or more second features configured to removably attach to the one or more first features. The pre-fabricated attachment further includes a traceability component configured to be used to determine one or more identifiers corresponding to the mold. The pre-fabricated attachment further includes a handling component configured to be secured by a robot or person to transport the mold and pre-fabricated attachment during production of the orthodontic aligner. The pre-fabricated attachment may be reused.

Attachments for handling and tracking fabricated custom objects

A method for inspecting a customized orthodontic aligner for manufacturing defects, the customized orthodontic aligner customized for a specific arch of a specific patient and a specific stage of orthodontic treatment, the method including obtaining images of the customized orthodontic aligner; identifying an identifier of the customized orthodontic aligner, determining a digital file based on the identifier, the digital file associated with the customized orthodontic aligner including a digital model of a mold used during manufacture of the customized orthodontic aligner, determining a intended property for the customized orthodontic aligner by digitally manipulating the digital model of the mold, determining an actual property of the customized orthodontic aligner from the images, determining whether there is a manufacturing defect in the customized orthodontic aligner by comparing the intended property with the actual property, outputting an output associated with the determination of whether there is a manufacturing defect.

Aligner image based quality control system

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Cludad Juarez, Mexico

Enrique Soltero Borrego