公开(公告)号：US20250114167A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18896128

申请日：2024-09-25

Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Vadim MATOV ,  Sergei BRODSKY ,  Bastien PESENTI ,  Yuri SYROV ,  Ping TANG ,  Manlio Fabio VALDIVIESO CASIQUE ,  Olga MATUSEVICH ,  Igor KVASOV

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08

Abstract: A method may include receiving a digital model of a dental appliance, the digital model may have a plurality of caps. Each cap of the plurality of caps may represent a set of contact points on a tooth. The digital model may have a plurality of links. Each link of the plurality of links may represent a connection between a plurality of caps. The method may include generating a relaxed model of a dental appliance using the digital model of the dental appliance. The method may also include generating a deformed model of the dental appliance using the digital model of the dental appliance and transforming the relaxed model to the deformed model to generate a plurality of parameters for moving the teeth of the patient towards a target tooth arrangement.

公开(公告)号：US12268574B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US18365201

申请日：2023-08-03

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Michael Sabina ,  Avi Kopelman ,  Eric Kuo ,  Gilad Elbaz ,  Assaf Weiss ,  Doron Malka ,  Ofer Saphier ,  Eliahou Franklin Nizard ,  Ido Tishel ,  Shai Ayal ,  Maayan Moshe

IPC: A61C9/00 ,  A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/06 ,  A61B1/24 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B6/51 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C13/00 ,  G06T19/00 ,  A61C13/34

Abstract: Intraoral scanning systems configured to perform computer-implemented methods for identifying dental features. The methods may include engaging a trained machine learning network to identify one or more dental features in one or more regions of a patient's dentition. Each of the dental features may be present in at least one of multiple records. Each of the records may include multiple images of the patient's dentition and may be taken with a different imaging modality. The confidence score may be determined or adjusted using a 3D model of the patient's dentition. The confidence score may be determined or adjusted based on the region of the patient's dentition within each record. The methods may include displaying an indicator of each dental feature that has a confidence score that is above a threshold on the 3D model of the patient's dentition, and modifying the display as a user adjusts the threshold.

公开(公告)号：US12263620B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US17990581

申请日：2022-11-18

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： James Nishimuta ,  Enrique Soltero Borrego ,  Enrique Jonathan Guzman Olivas ,  Jun Sato ,  Kevin Daniel Rodriguez Trujillo ,  Jose Kiyotaka Blanco Romo ,  Erick Enriquez de Anda ,  Lance Robert Pickens ,  Wesly Wong ,  Gabriela Perez Vallejo ,  Carlos Alberto Garcia Carmona ,  Omar Barraza Alvarez ,  Miguel Angel Hurtado Soltero

IPC: B29C33/38 ,  B29C51/10 ,  B29C51/26 ,  B29C51/30 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y50/00 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  B29L31/00

Abstract: Implementations describe systems and methods for manufacturing and performing quality assessment of dental appliances. In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a dental appliance comprises receiving, at a holder, a feature of the dental appliance, the feature comprising a first surface having a first shape, wherein the holder holds the feature of the dental appliance at a reference position. The method further includes automatically placing an object against the feature at the reference position using a robot arm, wherein the object comprises a second surface having a second shape that mates with the first shape. The method further includes applying pressure to press the object against the feature of the dental appliance and bonding the object to the feature of the dental appliance while applying the pressure.

公开(公告)号：US12262869B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US18351479

申请日：2023-07-12

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Avi Kopelman ,  Michael Sabina ,  Nir Makmel ,  Adi Levin ,  Arad Zulti ,  Arthur Hsieh

IPC: G16H40/67 ,  A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/24 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61C9/00

Abstract: Apparatuses, including sleeves, intraoral scanning systems to use these sleeves, and methods of using the sleeve, that authenticate the sleeve for use with an intraoral scanning system. Authentication may include verifying that the sleeve is new (unused) and/or verifying that the sleeve is appropriate and/or intended for use with the intraoral scanning system. Once authenticated, operation parameters of the intraoral scanning system can be automatically set based on information from a scanned identifier on the sleeve.

公开(公告)号：US20250099206A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18971833

申请日：2024-12-06

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Allen Boronkay

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/14 ,  A61C7/36 ,  B29L31/00 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G05B19/042 ,  G05B19/4097

Abstract: Systems for fabrication of dental appliances are provided. In some embodiments, a system includes an additive manufacturing system configured to perform operations including: fabricating a first elongate shaft having a first connection region for connecting to a shell of a dental appliance, fabricating a second elongate shaft having a second connection region for connecting to the shell or to a tooth, fabricating a first elongate connector coupled to the first and second elongate shafts, and fabricating a second elongate connector coupled to the first elongate shaft and extending toward the second elongate shaft, where the first and second elongate connectors are coupled to the first elongate shaft at respective locations separate from the first connection region, and where the first elongate connector is coupled to the second elongate shaft at a location separate from the second connection region.

公开(公告)号：US20250095301A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18781292

申请日：2024-07-23

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Pavel Pokotilov ,  Anton Lapshin ,  Evgeniy Malashkin ,  Sergei Ozerov ,  Yury Slynko ,  Andrey Sergeevich Nekrasov ,  Leonid Vyacheslavovich Grechishnikov ,  Anna Orlova ,  Yingjie Li ,  Phillip Thomas Harris ,  Maurice K. Carrier

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  A61B17/00 ,  A61B34/10 ,  A61B34/20 ,  A61B90/00 ,  A61B90/50 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C9/00 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06V40/16

Abstract: A mobile device comprises an AR display, an image capture device that generates image data of a face of a viewer of the AR display, and a processing device. The processing device receives the image data and sends the image data to a computing device. The computing device processes the image data to identify a position of a dental arch in the image data; determines a treatment outcome for the dental arch; generates a post-treatment image of the dental arch that shows the treatment outcome; generates updated image data comprising a superimposition of the post-treatment image of the dental arch over the received image data; and sends the updated image data to the mobile device. The mobile device outputs the updated image data to the AR display, wherein the post-treatment image of the dental arch is superimposed over the dental arch in the received image data such that the post-treatment image is visible in the AR display rather than a true depiction of the dental arch.

公开(公告)号：US20250090290A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18885409

申请日：2024-09-13

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Byong-Ho Park ,  Hunho Jo ,  Zijie Zhu ,  Wesly Wong ,  Fred Ting ,  Zhichao Zhang ,  Robert Nettles-Miller ,  Sheyda Nazarian ,  Yixin Xu ,  Vincent Yeh ,  Sangshik Park ,  Changgyu Bak ,  Jun Sato

IPC: A61C19/04

Abstract: Intraoral sensors and associated systems, devices, and methods are provided. In some embodiments, an intraoral sensor for sensing pH within an intraoral cavity of a subject includes a film composed of a biocompatible polymer and a pH-sensitive molecule. The pH-sensitive molecule can be configured to change in color based on a pH within a subject's intraoral cavity. The pH-sensitive molecule can be immobilized in the film. The intraoral sensor can also include an adhesive configured to couple the film to a surface of a dental appliance or a tooth of the subject.

公开(公告)号：US20250086626A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18912529

申请日：2024-10-10

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Todd MILLER ,  Douglas FEDICH ,  Leela PARVATHANENI

IPC: G06Q20/40 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  G06Q20/10 ,  G06Q40/08 ,  G06Q50/22 ,  G16H40/40 ,  G16H50/30 ,  G16H80/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for manufacturing a series of dental aligners. These methods generally include coordination of a dental aligner laboratory coordinating early in the pre-approval process for financing the dental aligner series, a third party financing service, and/or a dental practitioner (e.g., dentist, orthodontist, etc.).

公开(公告)号：US20250072999A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18818404

申请日：2024-08-28

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： John Y. Morton ,  Christopher E. Cramer ,  Chad Clayton Brown ,  Avi Kopelman

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/12 ,  G16H20/40 ,  G16H50/70

Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a processing device, clinical data of a first state of one or more dental arches of a patient. The method further comprises determining, by the processing device, one or more stages of an orthodontic treatment plan for correcting the one or more dental arches based on processing of the clinical data. Determining a stage of the orthodontic treatment plan comprises determining one or more actions to be performed with respect to the one or more dental arches and determining a target state of the one or more dental arches that is predicted to result at least in part from the one or more actions.

公开(公告)号：US20250072835A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18820196

申请日：2024-08-29

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Byong-Ho PARK ,  Zijie ZHU ,  Fred TING ,  Wesly WONG ,  Zhichao ZHANG

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61C7/08

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for monitoring wear status of a dental appliance may include a sensing module that sensing the temperature and one or more additional modalities (e.g., capacitance, impedance, pressure force) around a dental appliance to track when the user is wearing or not wearing the dental appliance. These sensing modules may also determine compliance more accurately with a dental treatment plan.