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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2022
Applicant:
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Christopher E. Cramer, Durham, NC (US);
Pavel Agniashvili, Moscow, RU;
Chad Clayton Brown, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/11 (2017.01); A61C 13/34 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06T 7/162 (2017.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/162 (2017.01); A61C 13/34 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 17/205 (2013.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30036 (2013.01); G06V 2201/03 (2022.01);
Abstract
Provided herein are systems and methods for automatically segmenting a 3D model of a patient's teeth. A patient's dentition may be scanned. The scan data may be converted into a 3D model, including a graph-based representation of the 3D model. The graph-based representation can be input into a machine learning model to train the machine learning model to segment the 3D model into individual dental components. Trained machine learning models can also be used to segment graph-based representations of a 3D model of a patient's teeth.