Patents by Inventor Eric E. Kuo
Eric E. Kuo 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).
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Patent number: 8738394Abstract: Clinical data file embodiments and methods for creating the same are provided. One embodiment includes treatment professional information in at least one of a number of treatment professional information data fields in a treatment professional section of the file, patient personal information in at least one of a number of patient personal information data fields in a patient profile section of the file, a number of patient medical information items, and an indicator associated with at least one of the treatment professional information data fields, at least one of the patient personal information data fields, and at least one of the patient medical information items, where the treatment professional information, patient personal information, and patient medical information items associated with an enabled indicator are hidden.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Inventor: Eric E. Kuo
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Publication number: 20140142897Abstract: The present disclosure provides computing device implemented methods, computing device readable medium, and molds for filling undercut areas of teeth relative to an axis of placement. Filling undercut areas of teeth relative to an axis of placement can include calculating an undercut area of a tooth relative to an axis of placement of part of a dental appliance over a number of teeth and a height of contour that is defined based on the axis of placement. Filling undercut areas of teeth relative to an axis of placement can also include filling in a part of the undercut area of the tooth with a virtual filler wherein the undercut is filled to within a threshold distance from the tooth that is defined relative to the axis of placement and the height of contour.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.Inventor: Eric E. Kuo
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Patent number: 8731280Abstract: Virtual cephalometric imaging includes creating a first 3D virtual model and a second 3D virtual model of a patient's dentition. The first 3D virtual model is based on a first impression taken of the patient's dentition at a first time. The second 3D virtual model is based on a second impression taken of the patient's dentition at a second time. The first and the second 3D virtual models are correlated. A 2D image is generated including a first outline representing a position of at least one tooth of the patient's dentition according to the first 3D virtual model and a second outline representing a position of the at least one tooth according to the second 3D virtual model. Generating the 2D image includes positioning the first outline relative to the second outline according to the correlation of the first and the second 3D virtual models.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Fabio Pettinati, Sherri Wilson
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Patent number: 8545221Abstract: Various methods and systems for designing a restored smile are provided. One method includes receiving scan data of a patient's teeth, developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via a computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data, creating a dental treatment plan to restore one or more teeth from an initial condition to a successive condition, and wherein a final condition of the one or more is based on the one or more teeth having at least one planned additional restorative tooth structure provided therewith.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michelle Stone-Collonge, Eric E. Kuo, Rick M. Matty, Fabio Pettinati, Thomas Maurer, Dzmitry Sanko
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Patent number: 8439674Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for intra-oral delivery of drugs.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Chunhua Li, Wenda C. Carlyle, Philippe De Smedt, Amir Abolfathi, Eric E. Kuo, Robert E. Tricca, Jennifer C. Chen, Benjamin M. Wu
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Publication number: 20130058547Abstract: Virtual cephalometric imaging includes creating a first 3D virtual model and a second 3D virtual model of a patient's dentition. The first 3D virtual model is based on a first impression taken of the patient's dentition at a first time. The second 3D virtual model is based on a second impression taken of the patient's dentition at a second time. The first and the second 3D virtual models are correlated. A 2D image is generated including a first outline representing a position of at least one tooth of the patient's dentition according to the first 3D virtual model and a second outline representing a position of the at least one tooth according to the second 3D virtual model. Generating the 2D image includes positioning the first outline relative to the second outline according to the correlation of the first and the second 3D virtual models.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Fabio Pettinati, Sherri Wilson
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Publication number: 20120290269Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, systems, and devices for prioritization of three dimensional dental elements. One method for prioritizing three dimensional dental elements includes receiving a virtual initial dental data set (IDDS) of teeth having spatial information regarding the positions of a number of teeth in the virtual IDDS with respect to each other for presentation of the teeth in a virtual three dimensional space to be viewed on a user interface, setting prioritization values of a number of elements of one or more of the number of teeth, and prioritizing the number of elements to be selected by a user based upon their prioritization values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Igor Kvasov, Anna Egorova, Sergey Gagarin
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Patent number: 8275180Abstract: Embodiments are provided for accurately characterizing a tooth's movement. One method embodiment includes associating an abnormal tooth shape with a model tooth shape from a reference library of model tooth shapes, mapping a predefined dental reference from the model tooth shape onto at least a portion of the abnormal tooth shape, and adding a location of the predefined dental reference to the abnormal tooth shape based on the mapped predefined dental reference from the model tooth shape.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2007Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventor: Eric E. Kuo
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Patent number: 8244028Abstract: Virtual cephalometric imaging includes creating a first 3D virtual model and a second 3D virtual model of a patient's dentition. The first 3D virtual model is based on a first impression taken of the patient's dentition at a first time. The second 3D virtual model is based on a second impression taken of the patient's dentition at a second time. The first and the second 3D virtual models are correlated. A 2D image is generated including a first outline representing a position of at least one tooth of the patient's dentition according to the first 3D virtual model and a second outline representing a position of the at least one tooth according to the second 3D virtual model. Generating the 2D image includes positioning the first outline relative to the second outline according to the correlation of the first and the second 3D virtual models.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Fabio Pettinati, Sherri Wilson
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Publication number: 20120189971Abstract: Embodiments are provided for utilizing metallic portions in dental positioning appliances. One embodiment includes a removable dental positioning appliance having a shell having one or more cavities shaped to receive and reposition one or more teeth from a first orientation to a successive orientation and where at least a portion of the shell is formed from a metallic mesh material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.Inventor: Eric E. Kuo
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Publication number: 20120106812Abstract: Various methods and systems for designing a restored smile are provided. One method includes receiving scan data of a patient's teeth, developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via a computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data, creating a dental treatment plan to restore one or more teeth from an initial condition to a successive condition, and wherein a final condition of the one or more is based on the one or more teeth having at least one planned additional restorative tooth structure provided therewith.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michelle Stone-Collonge, Eric E. Kuo, Rick Matty, Fabio Pettinati, Thomas Maurer, Dzmitry Sanko
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Patent number: 8152518Abstract: Embodiments are provided for utilizing metallic portions in dental positioning appliances. One embodiment includes a removable dental positioning appliance having a shell having one or more cavities shaped to receive and reposition one or more teeth from a first orientation to a successive orientation and where at least a portion of the shell is formed from a metallic mesh material.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventor: Eric E. Kuo
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Publication number: 20120082950Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for intra-oral delivery of drugs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Chunhua Li, Wenda C. Carlyle, Philippe De Smedt, Amir Abolfathi, Eric E. Kuo, Robert E. Tricca, Jennifer C. Chen, Benjamin M. Wu
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Patent number: 8099268Abstract: The present disclosure includes dental appliances, devices, and methods of making and using such appliances. In one embodiment, a method for tooth modeling includes receiving a patient information file for a treatment plan patient and analyzing the patient information file to determine whether the patient is a non-adult patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ian Kitching, Eric E. Kuo
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Patent number: 8099305Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed providing a database comprising a compendium of at least one of patient treatment history; orthodontic therapies, orthodontic information and diagnostics; employing a data mining technique for interrogating said database for generating an output data stream, the output data stream correlating a patient malocclusion with an orthodontic treatment; and applying the output data stream to improve a dental appliance or a dental appliance usage.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Philippe De Smedt, Cuong Van Nguyen, Christopher W. Overton
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Patent number: 8092215Abstract: A method for designing a restored smile includes receiving scan data of a patient's teeth, developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via a computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data, creating a dental treatment plan to restore one or more teeth from an initial condition to a successive condition, and wherein a final condition of the one or more is based on the one or more teeth having at least one planned additional restorative tooth structure provided therewith.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michelle Stone-Collonge, Eric E. Kuo, Rick Matty, Fabio Pettinati, Thomas Maurer, Dzmitry Sanko
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Patent number: 8075309Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for intra-oral delivery of drugs. One method embodiment includes providing a dental device with one or more reservoirs, supplying at least one of the reservoirs with the one or more substances, and fluidly releasing the one or more substances from at least one reservoir into an oral structure at different preselected doses at different predetermined time periods and in a predetermined sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Chunhua Li, Wenda C. Carlyle, Philippe De Smedt, Amir Abolfathi, Eric E. Kuo, Robert E. Tricca, Jennifer C. Chen, Benjamin M. Wu
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Publication number: 20110270588Abstract: Embodiments are provided for using an individualized orthodontic treatment index. One method embodiment includes receiving an initial virtual dental model from a first scan of a patient's dentition, modifying the initial virtual dental model to create a target virtual dental model according to a treatment goal, assigning a number of dental references to the target virtual dental model, receiving a treatment outcome virtual dental model from a second scan of the patient's dentition, mapping the number of dental references from the target virtual dental model to a treatment outcome virtual dental model, and calculating an individualized treatment index score for the treatment outcome virtual dental model according to one or more differences between the target virtual dental model and the treatment outcome virtual dental model based on the number of dental references.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2010Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Vadim Matov, Larry Lai, Fuming Wu, Jihua Cheng
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Publication number: 20110268326Abstract: Virtual cephalometric imaging includes creating a first 3D virtual model and a second 3D virtual model of a patient's dentition. The first 3D virtual model is based on a first impression taken of the patient's dentition at a first time. The second 3D virtual model is based on a second impression taken of the patient's dentition at a second time. The first and the second 3D virtual models are correlated. A 2D image is generated including a first outline representing a position of at least one tooth of the patient's dentition according to the first 3D virtual model and a second outline representing a position of the at least one tooth according to the second 3D virtual model. Generating the 2D image includes positioning the first outline relative to the second outline according to the correlation of the first and the second 3D virtual models.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2010Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Fabio Pettinati, Sherri Wilson
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Patent number: 7987099Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed providing a database comprising a compendium of at least one of patient treatment history; orthodontic therapies, orthodontic information and diagnostics; employing a data mining technique for interrogating said database for generating an output data stream, the output data stream correlating a patient malocclusion with an orthodontic treatment; and applying the output data stream to improve a dental appliance or a dental appliance usage.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Eric E. Kuo, Philippe De Smedt, Cuong Van Nguyen, Christopher W Overton