公开(公告)号：US20250082441A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18962977

申请日：2024-11-27

Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： John MORTON ,  Vadim MATOV ,  Heng CAO ,  Ryan KIMURA ,  Jihua CHENG ,  Bastien PESENTI

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/14 ,  G06F17/10 ,  G06F30/00

Abstract: A method of attachment design may include placing a virtual attachment having a shape at a location on a virtual tooth, generating attachment shape parameters for the virtual attachment, and determining whether the virtual attachment at the location and having the shape generates a solution that results in a desired movement of the virtual tooth for a stage of treatment in a treatment plan. The method may also include modifying, based on the determining, the shape of the virtual attachment or the location of the virtual attachment.

公开(公告)号：US20230200942A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-29

申请号：US18179341

申请日：2023-03-06

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Jeeyoung CHOI ,  Chunhua LI ,  John MORTON ,  Bastien PESENTI ,  Vadim MATOV ,  Alexander BELIAEV ,  Petr USHANOV ,  Roman A. ROSCHIN

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08

CPC classification number: A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/08

Abstract: A method includes to receive, via a computing device, data representing a plurality of teeth, identify data indicating which of the plurality of teeth are unerupted or erupting, predict at least one characteristic of a tooth of the unerupted or erupting teeth after they have fully erupted using one or more tooth eruption prediction factors, generate new data representing the unerupted or erupting teeth in multiple states of eruption based upon the predicted at least one characteristic of the fully erupted teeth, and generate a series of incremental tooth arrangements with the new data to define a proposed orthodontic treatment based on the new data representing the unerupted or erupting teeth in multiple states of eruption.

公开(公告)号：US20240024155A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18480006

申请日：2023-10-03

Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Bruce CAM ,  Crystal TJHIA ,  Chunhua LI ,  Vadim MATOV ,  John MORTON

IPC: A61F5/56 ,  A61C7/36 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/00

CPC classification number: A61F5/566 ,  A61C7/36 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/002

Abstract: Improved systems, methods, and devices for treating sleep apnea are provided herein. In one aspect, an intraoral appliance for treating sleep apnea in a patient comprises an appliance shell comprising a plurality of cavities shaped to receive teeth of a jaw of the patient. The appliance shell can comprise an advancement structure arranged to interact with an opposing jaw of the patient so as to displace the lower jaw anteriorly relative to the upper jaw. The plurality of cavities can comprise cavity geometries shaped to reduce repositioning of one or more received teeth elicited by displacement of the lower jaw anteriorly relative to the upper jaw.

公开(公告)号：US20230355353A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-09

申请号：US18353048

申请日：2023-07-14

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Ryan KIMURA ,  John MORTON ,  Richard SHAW ,  Chunhua LI

IPC: A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/00

CPC classification number: A61C7/10 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/002

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method, systems, and devices for adjusting an arch of teeth. An appliance includes a removable shell formed of a first material having a number of cavities formed therein, wherein the number of cavities are shaped to receive teeth of a patient, and an arch element extending from the removable shell in a lingual direction and across at least a portion of the arch width of the removable shell, wherein the arch element is designed to expand an arch of the teeth of the patient, wherein the arch element has a width specific to a stage of a treatment plan.

公开(公告)号：US20220287870A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17805153

申请日：2022-06-02

Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Bruce CAM ,  Crystal TJHIA ,  Chunhua LI ,  Vadim MATOV ,  John MORTON

IPC: A61F5/56 ,  A61C7/36 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/00

Abstract: Improved systems, methods, and devices for treating sleep apnea are provided herein. In one aspect, an intraoral appliance for treating sleep apnea in a patient comprises an appliance shell comprising a plurality of cavities shaped to receive teeth of a jaw of the patient. The appliance shell can comprise an advancement structure arranged to interact with an opposing jaw of the patient so as to displace the lower jaw anteriorly relative to the upper jaw. The plurality of cavities can comprise cavity geometries shaped to reduce repositioning of one or more received teeth elicited by displacement of the lower jaw anteriorly relative to the upper jaw.