公开(公告)号：US11042774B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-22

申请号：US16370788

申请日：2019-03-29

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Artem Borovinskih ,  Mitra Derakhshan ,  Carina Koppers ,  Eric Meyer ,  Ekaterina Tolstaya ,  Yury Brailov

IPC: G06K9/62 ,  G06T5/20 ,  A61C7/00 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/32 ,  G06T7/136

Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems for monitoring a dental patient's progress during a course of treatment. A three-dimensional model of the expected positions of the patient's teeth can be projected, in time, from a three-dimensional model of the patient's teeth prepared prior to beginning the treatment. A digital camera is used to take one or more two-dimensional photographs of the patient's teeth, which are input to a monitoring system. The monitoring system determines virtual-camera parameters for each two-dimensional input image with respect to the time-projected three-dimensional model, uses the determined virtual-camera parameters to generate two-dimensional images from the three-dimensional model, and then compares each input photograph to the corresponding generated two-dimensional image in order to determine how closely the three-dimensional arrangement of the patient's teeth corresponds to the time-projected three-dimensional arrangement.

公开(公告)号：US10255407B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-09

申请号：US15611593

申请日：2017-06-01

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Artem Borovinskih ,  Qinghui Lu ,  Maneesh Dhagat ,  Shiva P. Sambu ,  Evgeny Timofeyev ,  Dmitry Sultanov ,  Anton Spiridonov ,  Ivan Ionov ,  Sergey Nikolskiy ,  Vasily Ivanov ,  Alexey Vishnevskiy

IPC: G06F19/00 ,  G06Q50/04 ,  B33Y80/00

Abstract: Method and system for providing volume manufacturing of customizable items including receiving a data package including a plurality of manufacturing parameters, each of the plurality of manufacturing parameters associated with a unique item, verifying the received data package, and implementing a manufacturing process associated with the received data package is provided.

公开(公告)号：US20160338799A1

公开(公告)日：2016-11-24

申请号：US15227401

申请日：2016-08-03

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Fuming Wu ,  Vadim Matov ,  Artem Borovinskih ,  Rene M. Sterental ,  Pavel Agapov ,  Anton Spiridonov ,  Anatoliy Boltunov

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  G06F17/50 ,  A61C13/00

CPC classification number: A61C7/002 ,  A61C2007/004 ,  G06F17/50 ,  G06F19/34 ,  G06T19/20 ,  G06T2210/41

Abstract: The present disclosure provides computing device implemented methods, computing device readable media, and systems for adjustment of tooth position in a virtual dental model. Virtual dental modeling can include detecting space and/or collision between posterior teeth of an upper jaw and posterior teeth of a lower jaw in a virtual dental model that has been set in a preliminary target position. An energy function can be defined including the space and/or collision, tooth root movement, and align points. Weights can be assigned for each variable in the energy function. A position of the posterior teeth of the upper jaw and the posterior teeth of the lower jaw can be adjusted in six degrees of freedom to minimize the energy function. The detection, definition, assignment, and adjustment can be repeated until the energy function converges. The weights can be adjusted to reduce the space and/or collision.

公开(公告)号：US20160331492A1

公开(公告)日：2016-11-17

申请号：US15219779

申请日：2016-07-26

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Artem Borovinskih ,  Anton Terekhov ,  Rene Sterental ,  Mikhail Minchenkov ,  Ivan Pavlov

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/36 ,  A61C19/05

CPC classification number: A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/36 ,  A61C19/05 ,  A61C2007/004 ,  B33Y80/00

Abstract: An orthodontic positioning device and methods for making an orthodontic positioning device including a first patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in one of an upper jaw and a lower jaw. The first appliance includes a hook configured to receive an orthodontic elastic band. The orthodontic positioning device also includes a second patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in the other of the upper jaw and the lower jaw. The second appliance includes a cutout operable to expose an orthodontic elastic band receiving member.

公开(公告)号：US20150238282A1

公开(公告)日：2015-08-27

申请号：US14660375

申请日：2015-03-17

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Eric Kuo ,  Rick Matty ,  Artem Borovinskih

IPC: A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/20 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/14

CPC classification number: A61C7/08 ,  A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/12 ,  A61C7/14 ,  A61C7/20

Abstract: An orthodontic appliance including a shell aligner having a portion accommodating movement of a patient's bracketed teeth between a first position and the second position as elicited by force from an orthodontic braces appliance worn by the patient, related systems and methods.

Abstract translation: 一种矫正器具，包括壳体对准器，该壳体对准器具有容纳由患者所佩戴的正畸大括号器具的力引起的第一位置和第二位置之间的病人括号齿的运动的部分，相关的系统和方法。

公开(公告)号：US11986369B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-21

申请号：US17121497

申请日：2020-12-14

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Artem Borovinskih ,  Roman A. Roschin ,  Rene M. Sterental ,  Dmitriy Ten

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  G16H15/00 ,  G16H50/50

CPC classification number: A61C7/002 ,  G16H15/00 ,  G16H50/50

Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a dental treatment difficulty in digital treatment planning. The methods may include calculating tooth position changes from an initial dental model to a target dental model in a mouth quadrant of a patient's dentition. The changes in position may be determined by projecting distances between initial positions and subsequent positions of teeth onto an arch line of the initial dental model. A treatment difficulty of anterior-posterior (A-P) correction may be determined for the mouth quadrant based on an average change in position, wherein a greater average change in position is associated with a higher treatment difficulty of A-P correction. The digital treatment plan may be adjusted so that a provider skill level meets or exceeds the treatment difficulty of A-P correction.

公开(公告)号：US11471250B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-18

申请号：US17227158

申请日：2021-04-09

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Eric Kuo ,  Artem Borovinskih ,  Shiva Sambu

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  G06F30/20 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  A61C9/00

Abstract: Orthodontic positioning devices, and related methods and systems, are disclosed for use with one or more orthodontic elastic members. The disclosed devices are configured to couple with an orthodontic elastic member so as to react a force from the elastic member into the appliance to, for example, generate traction forces on the patient's teeth to produce a desired occlusion. A positioning device includes a patient removable tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth. The appliance includes a hook configured to interface with an orthodontic elastic member. The hook can be configured to be offset from a surface of a tooth when the appliance is coupled with the patient's teeth and no elastic member is coupled with the tooth. The hook can be curved so that the hook is more retentive on the aligner. The hook can be reinforced so that the reinforcement resists deformation when the elastic is in place.

公开(公告)号：US20160367339A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-22

申请号：US15253148

申请日：2016-08-31

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Rahul Khardekar ,  Artem Borovinskih ,  Rene M. Sterental ,  Giovanny Garro ,  Jason Ramos ,  Mitra Derakhshan ,  Sergey Kurchatov ,  Igor Kvasov

IPC: A61C7/00 ,  G06F17/50

CPC classification number: A61C7/002 ,  G06F17/50

Abstract: The present disclosure includes computing device related, systems, and methods for IPR planning as described herein. One method includes identifying a first tooth and a second tooth in a digital dental model with an overlap in a target final position in a treatment plan and identifying a reference line on each of the first tooth and the second tooth; revising the treatment plan wherein a position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth is determined in which the reference line of each of the first tooth and the second tooth are aligned and the first tooth and second tooth are not overlapping; and prescribing IPR based on the determined position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth.

公开(公告)号：US11890159B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-06

申请号：US17884972

申请日：2022-08-10

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Eric Kuo ,  Artem Borovinskih ,  Shiva Sambu

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  G06F30/20 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  A61C9/00

CPC classification number: A61C7/002 ,  A61C7/08 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  G06F30/20 ,  A61C9/0046

Abstract: Orthodontic positioning devices, and related methods and systems, are disclosed for use with one or more orthodontic elastic members. The disclosed devices are configured to couple with an orthodontic elastic member so as to react a force from the elastic member into the appliance to, for example, generate traction forces on the patient's teeth to produce a desired occlusion. A positioning device includes a patient removable tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth. The appliance includes a hook configured to interface with an orthodontic elastic member. The hook can be configured to be offset from a surface of a tooth when the appliance is coupled with the patient's teeth and no elastic member is coupled with the tooth. The hook can be curved so that the hook is more retentive on the aligner. The hook can be reinforced so that the reinforcement resists deformation when the elastic is in place.

公开(公告)号：US11810207B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-07

申请号：US18154567

申请日：2023-01-13

Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Artem Borovinskih ,  Qinghui Lu ,  Maneesh Dhagat ,  Shiva P. Sambu ,  Evgeny Timofeyev ,  Dmitry Sultanov ,  Anton Spiridonov ,  Ivan Ionov ,  Sergey Nikolskiy ,  Vasily Ivanov ,  Alexey Vishnevskiy

IPC: G05B19/4099 ,  G06Q50/04 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y80/00

CPC classification number: G06Q50/04 ,  B33Y50/02 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  G05B19/4099 ,  Y02P90/30

Abstract: Systems for volume manufacturing of items are provided. In some embodiments, a fabrication system is configured to retrieve a fabrication data package including manufacturing data. The system can verify the manufacturing data of the fabrication data package, and transmit the fabrication data package to at least one fabrication terminal configured to perform at least one fabrication process in accordance with the manufacturing data of the fabrication data package. If a predefined fabrication processing time period has not expired, the system can determine a process load associated with at least one additional fabrication data package, and repeating the above processes for the at least one additional fabrication data package, if the process load of the at least one additional fabrication data package is less than a predetermined process load of the fabrication system. If the predefined fabrication processing time period has expired, the system can generate a status report.