US 11,872,102 B2
Updating an orthodontic treatment plan during treatment
Avi Kopelman, Palo Alto, CA (US); Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US); Igor Kvasov, Santa Clara, CA (US); Mikhail Dyachenko, Moscow (RU); Roman A. Roschin, Moscow (RU); and Leonid Vyacheslavovich Grechishnikov, Moscow (RU)
Assigned to Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/829,339.
Application 17/829,339 is a continuation of application No. 17/003,857, filed on Aug. 26, 2020, granted, now 11,382,720.
Application 17/003,857 is a continuation of application No. 15/839,730, filed on Dec. 12, 2017, granted, now 10,792,127, issued on Oct. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/449,982, filed on Jan. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0296340 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61C 7/08 (2006.01); A61C 7/00 (2006.01); A61C 7/14 (2006.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 7/002 (2013.01) [G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61C 7/08 (2013.01); A61C 7/146 (2013.01); A61C 9/0053 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30036 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processor, cause the one or more processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving image data of an actual condition of a patient's dental arch at a stage of an orthodontic treatment plan;
comparing, by the one or more processor, the actual condition of the patient's dental arch as depicted in the image data to a planned condition of the patient's dental arch for the stage of the orthodontic treatment plan;
determining an updated orthodontic treatment plan based on one or more differences between the actual condition of the patient's dental arch and the planned condition of the patient's dental arch determined from the comparing; and
generating one or more three-dimensional (3D) models for one or more new orthodontic aligners in accordance with the updated orthodontic treatment plan.