Patents by Inventor Jordan Katzman

Jordan Katzman 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: 20250009473
    Abstract: A mobile device comprises a processing circuit to capture a two-dimensional (2D) representation representing one or more teeth of a user using a camera where the user is a patient seeking treatment, generate a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the one or more teeth based on the 2D representation using an artificial intelligence model where the 3D representation depicts the one or more teeth of the user in a final position, display a graphical visualization including the 3D representation where the graphical visualization is configured to enable the user to make a selection, and causing an order for at least one dental aligner for repositioning the one or more teeth of the user according to a treatment plan to a position corresponding with the final position to be transmitted over a cellular network to a fabrication system where the order initiates a payment using payment information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: SERGEY NIKOLSKIY, RYAN AMELON, ANTON SERGEEVICH ZADORA, STANISLAV DMITRIEVICH GROKHOLSKII, TIM WUCHER, JORDAN KATZMAN
  • Publication number: 20240382286
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of a user's dental arch based on two-dimensional (2D) images include a model training system and a model generation system where the model training system is configured to receive a plurality of data packets of a training set, identify, a plurality of correlation points between 2D training images and a 3D training model of the respective dental arch for each data packet, and generate a machine learning model configured to generate 3D models of dental arches from 2D images of the dental arches. The model generation system is configured to receive one or more 2D images of a dental arch of a user obtained by a portable device of the user, and generate a 3D model of the dental arch of the user by applying the one or more 2D images of the dental arch to the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Christopher Yancey, Tim Wucher
  • Publication number: 20240307157
    Abstract: A method includes sending a dental impression kit to a patient including dental trays of different sizes. The method includes receiving one or more dental impressions created using one or more dental trays having been selected by the patient from the plurality of dental trays, providing treatment plan data and a size indication to a provider computing device, receiving a communication approving the treatment plan, and manufacturing a plurality of dental aligners specific to the patient and being configured to reposition one or more teeth of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Alex Fenkell, David Katzman, Christopher Yancey, Josh Chapman
  • Patent number: 12076205
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a 3D model of a dentition are disclosed herein. A method includes generating a first 3D model of a dentition. The dentition includes a model tooth in a first position. The method includes receiving a digital representation comprising a patient tooth. The patient tooth corresponds to the model tooth of the first 3D model. The method includes determining a virtual camera parameter associated with the digital representation. The method includes adjusting the virtual camera parameter to determine a 3D position of the corresponding patient tooth. The method includes moving the model tooth of the first 3D model from the first position to a second position. The second position corresponds to the 3D position of the corresponding patient tooth. The method includes generating a second 3D model comprising the model tooth of the first 3D model in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Ryan Amelon, Jared Lafer, Ramsey Jones, Tim Wucher, Jordan Katzman, Martin Chobanyan
  • Patent number: 12070373
    Abstract: A method includes receiving representations of a first set of dental impressions including a first dental impression of an upper dental arch of a user and a second dental impression of a lower dental arch of the user having been created using contents from an initial dental impression kit sent to the user, identifying a defective dental impression, sending a retake dental impression kit to the user where the retake dental impression kit includes a set of dental trays consisting of dental trays corresponding to the dental arch associated with the defective dental impression, receiving representations of a second set of dental impressions of the dental arch associated with the defective dental impression, and manufacturing, based on the second set of dental impressions, a plurality of dental aligners specific to the user and being configured to reposition one or more teeth of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Alex Fenkell, David Katzman, Christopher Yancey, Josh Chapman
  • Publication number: 20240261064
    Abstract: A distributed system includes one or more servers configured to provide computing devices access to portals hosted by the one or more servers, where the portals include a patient intake portal accessible by a first computing device located at an office of an intake dentist or orthodontist, and an approving portal accessible by a second computing device remote from the first computing device. The distributed system includes a dental aligner fabrication system including a fabrication computing device and dental aligner fabrication equipment. The patient intake portal is configured to provide a plurality of status updates to the intake dentist or orthodontist regarding a status of the patient, where the plurality of status updates include an indication that the dental aligners have been sent to the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Alex Fenkell
  • Patent number: 11992388
    Abstract: A method includes sending a dental impression kit to a user including dental trays of different sizes including a first set of dental trays having a first size and a second set of dental trays having a second size, a base putty, and a catalyst putty, where the base putty and the catalyst putty are mixable to form a putty mixture for creating dental impressions. The method includes receiving dental impressions created using the first set of dental trays, the first set of dental trays having been selected by the user based on a fit of a first dental tray of the first set on a dental arch of the user relative to a fit of a second dental tray of the second set, and manufacturing a plurality of dental aligners specific to the user and being configured to reposition one or more teeth of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SMILEPAY SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Alex Fenkell, David Katzman, Christopher Yancey, Josh Chapman
  • Patent number: 11957530
    Abstract: A distributed system includes one or more servers configured to provide computing devices access to portals hosted by the one or more servers, where the portals include a patient intake portal accessible by a first computing device located at an office of an intake dentist or orthodontist, and an approving portal accessible by a second computing device remote from the first computing device. The distributed system includes a dental aligner fabrication system including a fabrication computing device and dental aligner fabrication equipment. The patient intake portal is configured to provide a plurality of status updates to the intake dentist or orthodontist regarding a status of the patient, where the plurality of status updates include an indication that the dental aligners have been sent to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Alex Fenkell
  • Patent number: 11908572
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intraoral scanning include determining, by an appointment management system, a condition that dental impressions have not been received from a user within a threshold time period where the user was provided with an in-home dental impression kit, generating and communicating a message to the user based on the condition where the message prompts the user to schedule an appointment at an intraoral scanning site, receiving a request to schedule an appointment at the intraoral scanning site where the intraoral scanning site has an intraoral scanner configured to conduct an intraoral scan of a mouth of the user, and conducting the intraoral scan using the intraoral scanner at the intraoral scanning site where the intraoral scan generates three-dimensional data of the mouth of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Alex Fenkell, David Katzman, Christopher Yancey, Josh Chapman, Jessica Cicurel
  • Patent number: 11900538
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a model generation engine, an image of a dental arch of a user, executing, by the model generation engine, a machine learning model that is trained to receive the image and output a representation of the image, where in at least one iteration during training, the machine learning model determines a difference between one or more features extracted from an iteration of the representation of the image and a corresponding one or more features extracted from the image, and the method further includes outputting, by the model generation engine, an output representation of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Christopher Yancey
  • Patent number: 11894131
    Abstract: Systems and methods include determining, by an appointment management system, a condition that an appointment to conduct an intraoral scan at an intraoral scanning site has been missed by a user, automatically generating a message to the user indicating that an at-home dental impression kit can be sent to the user based on determining that the appointment has been missed, and transmitting the automatically generated message to a communications device associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Alex Fenkell, David Katzman, Christopher Yancey, Josh Chapman, Jessica Cicurel
  • Patent number: 11850113
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors coupled to a non-transitory memory, where the one or more processors are configured to generate, using a training set comprising one or more two-dimensional (2D) training images of a dental arch and a three-dimensional (3D) dental arch model, a machine-learning model configured to generate 3D models of dental arches from 2D images of the dental arches, receive one or more 2D images of a dental arch of a user obtained by a user device of the user, and execute the machine-learning model using the one or more 2D images as input to generate a 3D model of the dental arch of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Jordan Katzman, Christopher Yancey, Tim Wucher
  • Publication number: 20230390025
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a 3D model of a dentition are disclosed herein. A method includes generating a first 3D model of a dentition. The dentition includes a model tooth in a first position. The method includes receiving a digital representation comprising a patient tooth. The patient tooth corresponds to the model tooth of the first 3D model. The method includes determining a virtual camera parameter associated with the digital representation. The method includes adjusting the virtual camera parameter to determine a 3D position of the corresponding patient tooth. The method includes moving the model tooth of the first 3D model from the first position to a second position. The second position corresponds to the 3D position of the corresponding patient tooth. The method includes generating a second 3D model comprising the model tooth of the first 3D model in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Ryan Amelon, Jared Lafer, Ramsey Jones, Tim Wucher, Jordan Katzman, Martin Chobanyan
  • Publication number: 20230326242
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory, and the one or more processors are configured to receive a first image representing at least a portion of a mouth of a user, execute a first machine-learning architecture trained to generate a set of features from the first image, determine, based on the set of features, that the first image satisfies at least one criteria for executing a second machine-learning architecture based on the first image, and generate, based on the first image satisfying the at least one criteria, a prompt indicating feedback for capturing a second image representing at least a second portion of the mouth of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Tim Wucher, Ryan Amelon, Jordan Katzman, Aleksey Gurtovoy
  • Publication number: 20230281943
    Abstract: A system includes a model generation system configured to receive one or more dental images corresponding to a dental arch of a user, generate a three-dimensional (3D) model of at least a portion of the dental arch of the user by applying the one or more dental images to a machine learning model to generate the 3D model where the machine learning model is trained based on at least one of one or more training images or one or more three-dimensional (3D) training models, and output the 3D model of the at least the portion of the dental arch to one or more computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Josh Long, Jordan Katzman, Tim Wucher, John Dargis, Christopher Yancey, Andrew Wright
  • Patent number: 11694418
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of a user's dental arch based on two-dimensional (2D) images of dental impressions include a model training system that provides a machine learning model using training image(s) of a dental impression of a respective dental arch and a 3D training model of the respective dental arch. A model generation system receives first image(s) of a first dental impression of a user's dental arch and second image(s), which may be of the first dental impression or a second dental impression of the dental arch. The model generation system generates a first and second 3D model of the dental arch by applying the first image(s) and second image(s) to the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Josh Long, Jordan Katzman, Tim Wucher, John Dargis, Christopher Yancey, Andrew Wright
  • Patent number: 11663852
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein use a first machine learning architecture and a second machine learning architecture where the first machine learning architecture executes on a first processor and receives a first image representing a mouth of a user, determines user feedback for outputting to the user based on a first machine learning model, and outputs the user feedback for capturing a second image representing the mouth of the user. The second machine learning architecture executes on a second processor and receives the first image and the second image, and generates a 3D model of at least a portion of a dental arch of the user based on the first image and the second image where the 3D model is generated based on a second machine learning model of the second machine learning architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SDC U.S. SmilePaySPV
    Inventors: Tim Wucher, Ryan Amelon, Jordan Katzman, Aleksey Gurtovoy
  • Publication number: 20230154624
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a two-dimensional (2D) representation provided by a user device where the 2D representation represents one or more teeth of a user, generate a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the one or more teeth of the user based on the 2D representation, generate a treatment plan for moving the one or more teeth of the user based on the 3D representation, and provide a graphical visualization of the treatment plan to the user device, wherein the graphical visualization is configured to enable the user to make a selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Sergey Nikolskiy, Ryan Amelon, Anton Zadora, Stanislav Grokholskii, Tim Wucher, Jordan Katzman
  • Publication number: 20230149126
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining movement of teeth include receiving a first 3D representation of a dentition comprising a plurality of teeth of a patient in an initial position, the 3D representation comprising a plurality of tooth representations including a plurality of points representing surfaces of a respective tooth of the dentition, generating, for each tooth representation, a compressed tooth representation using a geometric encoder model trained to compress the 3D representation of the detention, determining tooth movements of the plurality of teeth of the dentition from the initial position to a final position by applying each compressed tooth representation to a final position model trained to output movement of teeth of a dentition from initial positions to final positions, generating another 3D representation of the dentition comprising the plurality of teeth of the patient in the final position based on applying the tooth movements to the first 3D representations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Sergey NIKOLSKIY, Ryan Amelon, Anton Zadora, Stanislav Grokholskii, Tim Wucher, Jordan Katzman
  • Publication number: 20230149127
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable medium of visualizing a treatment of teeth includes capturing, by a user device, a representation representing one or more teeth of a user via a camera of a user device, transmitting, by the user device, the representation to a treatment planning system, receiving, by the user device, a graphical visualization of a treatment plan for moving the one or more teeth of the user from the treatment planning system, the graphical visualization generated based on the representation, displaying, by the user device, the graphical visualization, wherein the graphical visualization comprises a three-dimensional (3D) representation corresponding to the one or more teeth of the user and an interactive object associated with the treatment plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPV
    Inventors: Sergey NIKOLSKIY, Ryan AMELON, Anton Sergeevich ZADORA, Stanislav Dmitrievich GROKHOLSKII, Tim WUCHER, Jordan KATZMAN, John SHERIDAN, Ashley KING