Patents by Inventor Samuel BLANCO
Samuel BLANCO 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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Publication number: 20240081951Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Maurice K. CARRIER, JR., Phillip Thomas HARRIS, Sergey VINNICHENKO, Samuel BLANCO, Aleksandr Sergeevich KARSAKOV, Sebastien HARENG, Leon RASOVSKY
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Publication number: 20240081952Abstract: Systems and methods including: receiving, from a digital imaging device, one or more 2D images of a patient's face including a mouth region, where the one or more 2D images include a depiction of the patient's teeth in an initial arrangement; generating, using a neural network, a 2D rendering depicting a post-treatment arrangement of the patient's teeth based on the one or more received 2D images; generating a realistic composite 2D image depicting the patient's face with the 2D rendering depicting the post-treatment arrangement of the patient's teeth, where the generating includes positioning the 2D rendering within a mouth opening of the patient's face in the realistic composite 2D image; and sending the realistic composite 2D image to an output device for display on a user interface of the output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Pavel Pokotilov, Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten, Samuel Blanco, David Patrick Lopes, Jason Ramos, Rene M. Sterental, Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Yury A. Brailov, Artem Kuanbekov
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Patent number: 11864971Abstract: Methods and systems including: receiving one or more 2D images of a patient's face including a depiction of the patient's teeth in an initial arrangement; extracting teeth contours of the patient's teeth from within the mouth region of the one or more received 2D images of the patient's face; generating, using a neural network, a 2D rendering depicting a post-treatment arrangement of the patient's teeth based on the one or more received 2D images; generating a realistic composite 2D image depicting the patient's face with the 2D rendering depicting the post-treatment arrangement of the patient's teeth; and sending the realistic composite 2D image for display on a user interface of an output device.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Pavel Pokotilov, Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten, Samuel Blanco, David Patrick Lopes, Jason Ramos, Rene M. Sterental, Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Yury A. Brailov, Artem Kuanbekov
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Publication number: 20230414322Abstract: A method may include: receiving facial image of the patient that depicts the patient's teeth; receiving a 3D model of the patient's teeth; determining color palette of the depiction of the patient's teeth; coding 3D model of the patient's teeth based on attributes of the 3D model; providing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model to a neural network; processing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model by the neural network to generate a processed image of the patient's teeth; simulating specular highlights on the processed image of the patient's teeth; and inserting the processed image of the patient's teeth into a mouth opening of the facial image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Samuel Blanco, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Chad Clayton Brown, Christopher E. Cramer
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Patent number: 11819375Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Maurice K. Carrier, Jr., Phillip Thomas Harris, Sergey Vinnichenko, Samuel Blanco, Aleksandr Sergeevich Karsakov, Sebastien Hareng, Leon Rasovsky
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Publication number: 20230346515Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a virtual depiction of an orthodontic treatment of a patient are provided. In some embodiments, a system includes one or more processors, and a memory operably coupled to the one or more processors. The memory can include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations including: receiving one or more 2D images of a patient’s face including a mouth region; extracting teeth contours of the patient’s teeth from within the mouth region of the received 2D images; generating, using a neural network, a 2D rendering depicting a post-treatment arrangement of the patient’s teeth; generating a realistic composite 2D image depicting the patient’s face with the 2D rendering depicting the post-treatment arrangement of the patient’s teeth; and sending the realistic composite 2D image to an output device for display on a user interface of the output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Pavel Pokotilov, Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten, Samuel Blanco, David Patrick Lopes, Jason Ramos, Rene M. Sterental, Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Yury A. Brailov, Artem Kuanbekov
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Patent number: 11737853Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Maurice K. Carrier, Jr., Phillip Thomas Harris, Sergey Vinnichenko, Samuel Blanco, Aleksandr Sergeevich Karsakov, Sebastien Hareng, Leon Rasovsky
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Patent number: 11717380Abstract: A method may include: receiving an image of a mouth region of a patient's face; extracting teeth contours within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face; locating a mouth opening within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face; extracting the tooth contours from a 3D model of the patient's teeth; and aligning the tooth contours from the 3D model with the tooth contours of the teeth within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Pavel Pokotilov, Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten, Samuel Blanco, David Patrick Lopes, Jason Ramos, Rene M. Sterental, Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Yury A. Brailov, Artem Kuanbekov
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Publication number: 20230200941Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Maurice K. CARRIER, JR., Phillip Thomas HARRIS, Sergey VINNICHENKO, Samuel BLANCO, Aleksandr Sergeevich KARSAKOV, Sebastien HARENG, Leon RASOVSKY
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Patent number: 11672629Abstract: A method may include: receiving facial image of the patient that depicts the patient's teeth; receiving a 3D model of the patient's teeth; determining color palette of the depiction of the patient's teeth; coding 3D model of the patient's teeth based on attributes of the 3D model; providing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model to a neural network; processing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model by the neural network to generate a processed image of the patient's teeth; simulating specular highlights on the processed image of the patient's teeth; and inserting the processed image of the patient's teeth into a mouth opening of the facial image.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Samuel Blanco, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Chad Clayton Brown, Christopher E. Cramer
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Patent number: 11589957Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Maurice K. Carrier, Jr., Phillip Thomas Harris, Sergey Vinnichenko, Samuel Blanco, Aleksandr Sergeevich Karsakov, Sebastien Hareng, Leon Rasovsky
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Publication number: 20230056427Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for user modification of a rule or set of textual rules in plain language the reference instructions in a domain-specific treatment language that is used to generate dental appliance data. In some cases, the user may interact with a graphical user interface to modify a practitioner-specific subset of textural rules. The graphical user interface may allow modification of the practitioner-specific subset of textural rules without prior knowledge of the domain-specific treatment programming language. Each interaction region may cause sections of the predefined treatment preferences to be modified without knowledge of the dental protocol language. The example systems, methods, and/or computer-readable media described herein help with designing treatment plans for orthodontic treatments, including treatment plans based on predefined treatment preferences expressed in a dental protocol language.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Samuel BLANCO, Anton LAPSHIN, Eric P. MEYER, Michael FLANAGAN, Yury SLYNKO, Maxim SHALASHOV, Evgeniy MALASHKIN, Rowena CHEONG, Roman A. ROSCHIN, Sergei LIUBIMOV
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Publication number: 20230000595Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for manufacturing an appliance for correcting malocclusions of a patient's teeth. The method may include measuring the positions of a patient's teeth and receiving tooth movement constraints. The method may also include generating an initial treatment plan based on the measured tooth positions and the tooth movement constraints and measuring the malocclusions of the patient's teeth for one or more types of dental malocclusions. The method may also include generating a plurality of treatment plans from the initial treatment plan based on the measured malocclusion and generating a model of an appliance for each stage of the treatment plan. The method may also include generating instructions for fabricating the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan based on the model of the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Rene M. STERENTAL, Samuel BLANCO, Anton LAPSHIN, Alexander KULINICH, Valery PROKOSHEV, Boris VASILEVSKIY, Evgeniy MOROZOV, Jason RAMOS
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Publication number: 20220378549Abstract: Methods and apparatuses, including systems, for forming and modifying treatment plans, including modifying treatment plan in real time. In particular are methods and apparatuses for modifying and orthodontic treatment plan in real time that may include the use of an enhanced user interface including a 3D user overlay.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Samuel BLANCO, Michael FLANAGAN, Eric P. MEYER, Igor LOGVANEV, Dmitry MEDNIKOV, Alexander PORYVKIN, Sergey MAKAROV, Vasily IVANOV
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Publication number: 20220369916Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Maurice K. CARRIER, JR., Phillip Thomas HARRIS, Sergey VINNICHENKO, Samuel BLANCO, Aleksandr Sergeevich KARSAKOV, Sebastien HARENG, Leon RASOVSKY
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Patent number: 11484389Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for manufacturing an appliance for correcting malocclusions of a patient's teeth. The method may include measuring the positions of a patient's teeth and receiving tooth movement constraints. The method may also include generating an initial treatment plan based on the measured tooth positions and the tooth movement constraints and measuring the malocclusions of the patient's teeth for one or more types of dental malocclusions. The method may also include generating a plurality of treatment plans from the initial treatment plan based on the measured malocclusion and generating a model of an appliance for each stage of the treatment plan. The method may also include generating instructions for fabricating the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan based on the model of the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Rene M. Sterental, Samuel Blanco, Anton Lapshin, Alexander Kulinich, Valery Prokoshev, Boris Vasilevskiy, Evgeniy Morozov, Jason Ramos
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Publication number: 20220087778Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatuses to obtain an image, or a set of images, of a patient's teeth from one or more predetermined viewing angles. These methods and apparatuses may include the use an overlay comprising an outline of teeth for each predetermined viewing angle. The overlay may be used for automatically capturing, focusing and/or illuminating the teeth. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for using a series of images of the patient's teeth including a set of predetermined views to determine if a patient is a candidate for an orthopedic procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Maurice K. CARRIER, JR., Phillip Thomas HARRIS, Sergey VINNICHENKO, Samuel BLANCO, Aleksandr Sergeevich KARSAKOV, Sebastien HARENG, Leon RASOVSKY
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Patent number: 11234794Abstract: The present disclosure provide for methods of planning restorative procedures. Methods may involve identifying an initial position of a patient's teeth based on a digital representation of the patient's teeth, and determining one or more candidate orthodontic positions for the patient's teeth, wherein each of the one or more candidate orthodontic positions is a target position of the patient's teeth being considered. Methods may further involve virtually modeling a first restorative object at a first evaluated restorative object position on one of the patient's teeth, evaluating a first amount of tooth mass removal corresponding to the first restorative object based on the first evaluated restorative object position and one of the candidate orthodontic positions, and determining a final orthodontic position and a final restorative object position based on the first amount of tooth mass removal.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Pavel Pokotilov, Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten, Samuel Blanco, David Patrick Lopes, Jason Ramos, Rene M. Sterental, Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin
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Publication number: 20210393375Abstract: A method may include: receiving facial image of the patient that depicts the patient's teeth; receiving a 3D model of the patient's teeth; determining color palette of the depiction of the patient's teeth; coding 3D model of the patient's teeth based on attributes of the 3D model; providing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model to a neural network; processing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model by the neural network to generate a processed image of the patient's teeth; simulating specular highlights on the processed image of the patient's teeth; and inserting the processed image of the patient's teeth into a mouth opening of the facial image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Samuel Blanco, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Chad Clayton Brown, Christopher E. Cramer
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Publication number: 20210378793Abstract: Orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses. In particular, described herein are methods of generating a plurality of orthodontic treatment plans digitally using a hierarchy of bounding boxes enclosing the plurality of 3D shapes to avoid collisions during treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Igor AKOPOV, Anton LAPSHIN, Samuel BLANCO, Artem KUANBEKOV, Eric P. MEYER, Andrey MAXIMOV, Boris LIKHTMAN, Michael FLANAGAN, Jason RAMOS, Mitra DERAKHSHAN, Roman A. ROSCHIN, Alexander BELOUS, Olga MATUSEVICH, Maria SHIRSHOVA, Nikolay YAKOVLEV