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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Applicants:
Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew C. Beers, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew C. Beers, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Align Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method define a fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system of a patient by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system of the patient; and determining an occlusion from the computer representation of the masticatory system using one or more keys.