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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2021
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Igor Akopov, Moscow, RU;
Anton Lapshin, Nizhniy Novgorod, RU;
Samuel Blanco, Saratoga, CA (US);
Artem Kuanbekov, Moscow, RU;
Eric P. Meyer, Zurich, CH;
Andrey Maximov, Kaluzhskaya, RU;
Boris Likhtman, Pushkino, RU;
Michael Flanagan, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jason Ramos, San Jose, CR;
Mitra Derakhshan, Herndon, VA (US);
Roman A. Roschin, Moscow, RU;
Alexander Belous, Moscow, RU;
Olga Matusevich, Moscow, RU;
Maria Shirshova, Krasnodar, RU;
Nikolay Yakovlev, Moscow, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses. In particular, described herein are methods of generating a plurality of orthodontic treatment plans digitally using a hierarchy of bounding boxes enclosing the plurality of 3D shapes to avoid collisions during treatment.