Patents by Inventor Douglas Bukaty

Douglas Bukaty has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230113449
    Abstract: Orthodontic assessment system for treatment planning. Orthodontic assessment may include categorizing a patient's dentition based on predetermined types of malocclusions in a number of orthodontic dimensions. The data is organized in matrices with addresses that characterize aspects of the patient's dentition and that may be used to query the database. In some examples, the one or more treatment goals may be incorporated with data regarding the patient's dentition to generate combined addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Robert ARNONE, Eric E. KUO, Douglas BUKATY
  • Patent number: 10886010
    Abstract: Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has a corresponding representation, selecting at least one reference condition in one or more of the plurality of dentition categories, where each selected reference condition is similar to the initial patient condition in a same dentition category, and generating a patient identifier based on the corresponding representations of each selected reference condition is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Arnone, Eric Kuo, Douglas Bukaty
  • Publication number: 20200293629
    Abstract: Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has a corresponding representation, selecting at least one reference condition in one or more of the plurality of dentition categories, where each selected reference condition is similar to the initial patient condition in a same dentition category, and generating a patient identifier based on the corresponding representations of each selected reference condition is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Arnone, Eric Kuo, Douglas Bukaty
  • Publication number: 20190244694
    Abstract: Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has a corresponding representation, selecting at least one reference condition in one or more of the plurality of dentition categories, where each selected reference condition is similar to the initial patient condition in a same dentition category, and generating a patient identifier based on the corresponding representations of each selected reference condition is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Arnone, Eric Kuo, Douglas Bukaty
  • Publication number: 20140136222
    Abstract: Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has a corresponding representation, selecting at least one reference condition in one or more of the plurality of dentition categories, where each selected reference condition is similar to the initial patient condition in a same dentition category, and generating a patient identifier based on the corresponding representations of each selected reference condition is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Arnone, Eric Kuo, Douglas Bukaty
  • Publication number: 20070128574
    Abstract: Method and system for receiving one or more dentition conditions of a patient, associating a first set of one or more treatment goals based on the one or more dentition conditions, generating a case difficulty assessment based on the one or more treatment goals, detecting a modification to the case difficulty assessment, retrieving a second set of one or more treatment goals associated with the modified case difficulty assessment, and displaying the second set of one or more treatment goals are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Kuo, Douglas Bukaty, Mitra Derakhshan, Chandra Swaminathan, Paul Kimball