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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2011
Applicants:
Muhammad Chishti, Washington, DC (US);
Andrew Beers, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Muhammad Chishti, Washington, DC (US);
Andrew Beers, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 3/00 (2006.01); A61C 7/00 (2006.01); A61C 11/00 (2006.01); A61C 7/08 (2006.01); A61C 19/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 7/002 (2013.01); A61C 11/00 (2013.01); A61C 7/08 (2013.01); A61C 19/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system and computing an occlusion based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system.