MUMBAI, India, Oct. 19 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641117024 A) filed by Saveetha Institute Of Medical And Technical Sciences on September 30, 2026, for Shape - Memory Orthodontic Retainer Fabricated From Polycaprolactone -Based Polymer For Thermal Recovery Deformation.
Inventors include Vedashree Venkatesh; Swapna Sreenivasagan; and Deepak Nallaswamy Veeraiyan.
The application for the patent was published on October 16, 2026, under issue no. 42/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to an orthodontic removable retainer fabricated from a shape-memory polycaprolactone (PCL)-based polymer capable of recovering its original programmed geometry following mild deformation. Conventional thermopl...