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公开(公告)号：US12251289B2
公开(公告)日：2025-03-18
申请号：US18135564
申请日：2023-04-17
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Heng Cao , Vadim Matov , John Y. Morton , Jon Moss , Ryan Kimura
Abstract: A method may include administering to a patient an orthodontic appliance. The orthodontic appliance may include a shell having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and reposition the patient's teeth, at least one of the cavities shaped to apply a resilient repositioning force to move at least one of the patient's teeth from a current arrangement toward a target arrangement, a ridge having a width and a length greater than the width, the ridge configured to apply at least a portion of the resilient repositioning force to the at least one of the patient's teeth, and a modification to a portion of the shell to compensate for a contact of the portion of the shell with the at least one patient's tooth due to positioning of the ridge in one or more of the teeth receiving cavities of the shell.
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公开(公告)号：US12186152B2
公开(公告)日：2025-01-07
申请号：US16358316
申请日：2019-03-19
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： John Morton , Vadim Matov , Heng Cao , Ryan Kimura , Jihua Cheng , Bastien Pesenti
Abstract: Orthodontic systems and related methods are disclosed for designing and providing improved or more effective tooth moving systems for eliciting a desired tooth movement and/or repositioning teeth into a desired arrangement. Methods and orthodontic systems of the invention include tooth attachments having improved or optimized parameters selected or modified for more optimal and/or effective application of forces for a desired/selected orthodontic movement. Attachments of the present invention can be customized to a particular patient (e.g., patient-customized), a particular movement, and/or a sub-group or sub-set of patients, and configured to engage an orthodontic tooth positioning appliance worn by a patient, where engagement between the attachment and orthodontic appliance results in application of a repositioning force or series/system of forces to the tooth having the attachment and will generally elicit a tooth movement.
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公开(公告)号：US11202691B2
公开(公告)日：2021-12-21
申请号：US16132014
申请日：2018-09-14
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Heng Cao , Vadim Matov , John Y. Morton , Jon Moss , Ryan Kimura
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems including orthodontic tooth positioning appliances. An exemplary appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped such that, when worn by a patient, repositioning the patient's teeth from a first arrangement toward a subsequent or target arrangement. Appliances can include a cavity having one or more shaped features or protrusions shaped and/or positioned so as to apply a desired force to a patient's tooth received in the cavity and move the tooth along a desired path or direction.
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公开(公告)号：US20190053878A1
公开(公告)日：2019-02-21
申请号：US16107017
申请日：2018-08-21
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Heng Cao , Vadim Matov , John Y. Morton , Jon Moss , Ryan Kimura
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems including orthodontic tooth positioning appliances. An exemplary appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped such that, when worn by a patient, repositioning the patient's teeth from a first arrangement toward a subsequent or target arrangement. Appliances can include a cavity having one or more shaped features or protrusions shaped and/or positioned so as to apply a desired force to a patient's tooth received in the cavity and move the tooth along a desired path or direction.
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公开(公告)号：US12121412B2
公开(公告)日：2024-10-22
申请号：US17085583
申请日：2020-10-30
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Chunhua Li , Jennifer Chen , John Morton , Jon Moss , Clark Kaufhardt , Heng Cao
CPC classification number: A61C7/08 , A61C7/14 , B33Y80/00 , Y10T29/49568
Abstract: Systems for orthodontic treatments are provided. In some embodiments, a system includes an attachment configured to be coupled to a tooth of a patient, the attachment having a first elasticity. The system can also include an orthodontic appliance having a shell with a plurality of teeth-receiving cavities shaped to reposition the patient's teeth from a first arrangement toward a second arrangement. The shell can have a second elasticity less than the first elasticity. The orthodontic appliance can include an attachment-receiving well formed in the shell. When the orthodontic appliance is worn on the patient's teeth, the attachment-receiving well can engage the attachment to effect a movement of at least one tooth of the patient.
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公开(公告)号：US12059321B2
公开(公告)日：2024-08-13
申请号：US17527954
申请日：2021-11-16
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Heng Cao , Vadim Matov , John Y. Morton , Jon Moss , Ryan Kimura
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems including orthodontic tooth positioning appliances. An exemplary appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped such that, when worn by a patient, repositioning the patient's teeth from a first arrangement toward a subsequent or target arrangement. Appliances can include a cavity having one or more shaped features or protrusions shaped and/or positioned so as to apply a desired force to a patient's tooth received in the cavity and move the tooth along a desired path or direction.
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公开(公告)号：US11547533B2
公开(公告)日：2023-01-10
申请号：US16951624
申请日：2020-11-18
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Chunhua Li , Jennifer Chen , John Morton , Jon Moss , Clark Kaufhardt , Heng Cao
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus's for improving orthodontic treatments. In an embodiment, an orthodontic system including a tactile object is provided for modulating an engagement between a tooth attachment and an orthodontic appliance.
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公开(公告)号：US10820967B2
公开(公告)日：2020-11-03
申请号：US15423418
申请日：2017-02-02
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Chunhua Li , Jennifer Chen , John Morton , Jon Moss , Clark Kaufhardt , Heng Cao
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus's for improving orthodontic treatments. In an embodiment, an orthodontic system including a tactile object is provided for modulating an engagement between a tooth attachment and an orthodontic appliance.
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公开(公告)号：US20190282333A1
公开(公告)日：2019-09-19
申请号：US16433865
申请日：2019-06-06
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Vadim Matov , John Y. Morton , Eric Kuo , Heng Cao
Abstract: Method and system for establishing an initial position of a tooth, determining a target position of the tooth in a treatment plan, calculating a movement vector associated with the tooth movement from the initial position to the target position, determining a plurality of components corresponding to the movement vector, and determining a corresponding one or more positions of a respective one or more attachment devices relative to a surface plane of the tooth such that the one or more attachment devices engages with a dental appliance are provided.
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公开(公告)号：US20190008613A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-10
申请号：US16132014
申请日：2018-09-14
Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
Inventor： Heng Cao , Vadim Matov , John Y. Morton , Jon Moss , Ryan Kimura
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems including orthodontic tooth positioning appliances. An exemplary appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped such that, when worn by a patient, repositioning the patient's teeth from a first arrangement toward a subsequent or target arrangement. Appliances can include a cavity having one or more shaped features or protrusions shaped and/or positioned so as to apply a desired force to a patient's tooth received in the cavity and move the tooth along a desired path or direction.
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