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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2023
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Chad C. Brown, Cary, NC (US);
Yun Gao, Cary, NC (US);
Pavel Agniashvili, Moscow, RU;
Avraham Zulti, Modiin, IL;
Jonathan Coslovsky, Rehovot, IL;
Christopher E. Cramer, Durham, NC (US);
Roman Gudchenko, Moscow, RU;
Ofer Saphier, Rehovot, IL;
Adi Levin, Nes Tziona, IL;
Maayan Moshe, Ra'anana, IL;
Doron Malka, Tel Aviv, IL;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses (including systems and devices), including computer-implemented methods for segmenting, correcting and/or modifying a three-dimensional (3D) model of a subject's oral cavity to determine individual components such as teeth, gingiva, tongue, palate, etc., that may be selective and/or collectively digitally manipulated. In some implementations, artificial intelligence uses libraries of labeled 2D images and 3D dental models to learn how to segment a 3D dental model of a subject's oral cavity using 2D images, height map and/or other data and projection values that relate the 2D images to the 3D model. As noted herein, the dental classes can include a variety of intra-oral and extra-oral objects and can be represented as binary values, discrete values, a continuum of height map data, etc. In some implementations, several dental classes are predicted concurrently.