MUMBAI, India, Sept. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641099902 A) filed by Saveetha Institute Of Medical And Technical Sciences on August 19, 2026, for Adjustable Buccal Tube Parallel Alignment Guide.

Inventors include Vedashree V; Swapna Sreenivasagan; and Deepak Nallaswamy Veeraiyan.

The application for the patent was published on September 11, 2026, under issue no. 37/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT An Adjustable Buccal Tube Parallel Alignment Guide is proposed as a novel orthodontic hand instrument designed to improve the precision and reproducibility of buccal tube placement during direct bonding procedures. Conventional buccal tube positioning relies primarily on visual estimation and operator expe...