MANIPULATING A DIGITAL DENTITION MODEL TO FORM MODELS OF INDIVIDUAL DENTITION COMPONENTS
Patent №
US 6,409,504
Granted
2002-06-25
Filed 1999
Owner
ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Lab
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AI components
1
vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09311941
A programmed computer is used to create a digital model of an individual component of a patient's dentition. The computer obtains a 3D digital model of the patient's dentition, identifies points in the dentition model that lie on an inter-proximal margin between adjacent teeth in the patient's dentition, and uses the identified points to create a cutting surface that separates portions of the dentition model representing the adjacent teeth.
AI classification
Ownership
ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
assignment · 101740725
Assignors
JONES, TIMOTHY, CHISHTI, MUHAMMAD, WEN, HUAFENG, BALA, GREGORY P.
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