公开(公告)号：US20250127533A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-24

申请号：US18919166

申请日：2024-10-17

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Laura Natania Nicole Marina Lee ,  Chang Xu ,  Mitra Derakhshan ,  Kangning Su ,  Jonathan Biderman ,  Jessica H. Schiltz ,  Ankit Shukla ,  Suemi Gonzales ,  Eric Yau ,  Crystal Tjhia ,  Palak Mittal ,  Yuxiang Wang ,  Jivtesh Khurana ,  Jun Sato ,  Srinivas Kaza

IPC: A61B17/24

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for placing dental auxiliaries on teeth and/or removing dental auxiliaries from teeth are provided. In some embodiments, a device for removing a dental auxiliary from a tooth includes: a first elongate member having a proximal end and a distal end; a second elongate member having a proximal end and a distal end, where the first and second elongate members are pivotally coupled to each other; a scraper at the distal end of the second elongate member, where the scraper is configured to apply force to the dental auxiliary to remove the dental auxiliary from the tooth; and a pair of sidewalls configured to capture debris resulting from the removal of the dental auxiliary from the tooth.

公开(公告)号：US20250114239A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18983012

申请日：2024-12-16

Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Avi KOPELMAN

IPC: A61F5/56

Abstract: An intraoral device for use in treating a sleep apnea condition may include an intraoral device body, a first advancement structure configured to be coupled to a first jaw of a patient, and an intraoral actuator coupled to the first advancement structure. The intraoral actuator may be configured to displace a lower jaw of the patient from a first position to a second position in order to treat the sleep apnea condition. Displacing the lower jaw of the patient may include advancing the lower jaw from the first position to the second position with the first intraoral actuator acting against the first advancement structure. The intraoral actuator may displace the lower jaw of the patient based at least in part on data from at least one sensor.

公开(公告)号：US20250114169A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18990936

申请日：2024-12-20

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Igor AKOPOV ,  Anton LAPSHIN ,  Samuel BLANCO ,  Artem KUANBEKOV ,  Eric P. MEYER ,  Andrey MAXIMOV ,  Boris LIKHTMAN ,  Michael FLANAGAN ,  Jason RAMOS ,  Mitra DERAKHSHAN ,  Roman A. ROSCHIN

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C9/00 ,  G16H50/50

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for orthodontic treatment planning. A treatment plan may be for a patient's teeth and for a specific dental professional. A set of combined treatment preferences may include a first set of rules converted from a set of textual instructions from the specified dental professional into a domain-specific language specific to the specified dental professional. The textual instructions may include unscripted instructions. A second set of rules may be converted from a set of scripted instructions from the specified dental professional. The scripted instructions may include responses from a script of predefined choices. An orthodontic treatment plan may be generated for the patient's teeth using the set of combined treatment preferences and a digital model of the patient's teeth.

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.