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.

公开(公告)号：USD1064272S1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US29955760

申请日：2024-08-02

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Designer： Roee Gorfinkel ,  Ariel Shalev ,  Nir Makmel ,  Benny Gordon ,  Eddy Pincu ,  Osnat Zac ,  Eran Ishay

公开(公告)号：US12236607B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US17124363

申请日：2020-12-16

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Assaf Weiss ,  Maxim Volgin ,  Pavel Agniashvili ,  Chad Clayton Brown ,  Alexander Raskhodchikov ,  Avi Kopelman ,  Michael Sabina ,  Moti Ben-Dov ,  Shai Farkash ,  Igor Makiewsky ,  Maayan Moshe ,  Ofer Saphier

IPC: G06T7/12 ,  A61C13/00 ,  A61C13/34 ,  G06N3/047 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G16H30/40

Abstract: In embodiments, a processing device detects a margin line in a model of a preparation from one or more images. The processing device determines, for each segment of a plurality of segments of the margin line, a quality score for the segment. The processing device determines that a segment of the margin line has a quality score that is below a quality threshold, wherein the segment of the margin line was generated based on a first set of images. Responsive to determining that the segment of the margin line has the quality score that is below the quality threshold, the processing devices updates the three-dimensional model of the preparation by replacing a portion of the three-dimensional model associated with the segment of the margin line with image data from at least one of a new image or a second set of images.

公开(公告)号：US12232929B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US18181439

申请日：2023-03-09

Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Ken Wu ,  Eric E. Kuo ,  Mitra Derakhshan ,  Crystal Tjhia ,  Eric Yau ,  Allen R. Boronkay ,  Chunhua Li ,  Gleb Krivovyaz

IPC: A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/36

Abstract: A method may include identifying a jaw position of a misaligned jaw of a patient from the virtual image of the patient's jaw and providing a treatment plan. The treatment plan may include tooth repositioning forces and jaw repositioning forces. The method may also include virtually modeling application of jaw repositioning forces between a first repositioning jaw element and a second repositioning jaw element to obtain a virtual model of the application of the jaw repositioning forces on the virtual model of the patient's jaw, identifying one or more constraints limiting the application of the jaw repositioning forces to the misaligned jaw, and adjusting the first repositioning jaw element and the second repositioning jaw element to accommodate the one or more constraints.

公开(公告)号：US20250057635A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-20

申请号：US18935403

申请日：2024-11-01

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Chao SHI ,  Yingjie LI ,  Vladislav Andreevich MIRYAHA ,  Boris Aleksandrovich VYSOKANOV ,  Andrey BUSHEV

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C9/00 ,  A61C13/00

Abstract: Provided herein are orthodontic systems and methods for automatically segmenting a person's teeth. Systems, methods and processes are provided to properly segment the teeth of a person's teeth from an image of the person's face showing at least some of the person's teeth (e.g., dental arch). Methods and systems are provided to automatically detect dental edges after a dental scan. Also described herein are methods and systems for generating a simulated image of the person's face from the final segmentation of the person's teeth in which the segmented teeth have been moved from their original position, including a new position based on an orthodontic treatment plan.