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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:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2021
Applicant:
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Avi Kopelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/48 (2006.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01); A61C 19/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 9/0066 (2013.01); A61C 19/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for providing patient data useful for dental procedures, including scanning a dental structure of a patient when coupled to a geometric structure to provide a virtual model representative of the coupling and the dental structure, and relating the virtual model to a body reference of the patient.