US 12,213,855 B2
Methods of manufacturing dental aligners
Igor Akopov, Moscow (RU); Anton Lapshin, Nizhniy Novgorod (RU); Samuel Blanco, Saratoga, CA (US); Artem Kuanbekov, Nizhniy Novgorod (RU); Eric P. Meyer, Zurich (CH); Andrey Maximov, Kaluzhskaya (RU); Boris Likhtman, Pushkino (RU); Michael Flanagan, Redwood City, CA (US); Jason Ramos, San Jose (CR); Mitra Derakhshan, Herndon, VA (US); and Roman A. Roschin, Moscow (RU)
Assigned to Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/406,071.
Application 17/406,071 is a continuation of application No. 16/178,491, filed on Nov. 1, 2018, granted, now 11,096,763.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/580,432, filed on Nov. 1, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/580,427, filed on Nov. 1, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/692,551, filed on Jun. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0378792 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61C 7/00 (2006.01); A61C 7/08 (2006.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01)
CPC A61C 7/002 (2013.01) [A61C 7/08 (2013.01); A61C 9/0053 (2013.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacturing a series of aligners for a patient's teeth, the method comprising:
receiving, in a processor, a model of the patient's teeth and an array of treatment plans specific to the patient's teeth, wherein each treatment plan in the array describes a set of sequential stages for orthodontic movement of the patient's teeth, including a final stage, further wherein the final stages of the treatment plans within the array of treatment plans are different;
displaying, on a screen, images of the patient's teeth at the final stages for a subset of the treatment plans from the array of treatment plans;
receiving, from a user, a selection to modify one or more treatment parameters for the subset of the treatment plans;
displaying, on the screen, one or more modified images of the patient's teeth at the final stages based on the received selection to modify the one or more treatment parameters for the subset of the treatment plans;
receiving, from the user, a selection of two or more treatment plans from the subset of the treatment plans selected using one or more controls on the screen;
displaying, to the patient, the two or more treatment plans from the subset of the treatment plans; and
fabricating the series of aligners based on a selected one of the two or more displayed treatment plans selected by the patient.