ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,948, issued on July 28.

"Systems for chronologically tracking dental treatment modalities for a plurality of patients" was invented by Bryan Allen Lockhart (Charlotte, N.C.) and Lauren Rennick Lockhart (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for chronologically tracking patient dental treatment modalities for a plurality of patients including dental aligner production and manufacture. A device may display a three-dimensional model of the series of the modified teeth positions from the starting teeth positions, the three-dimensional model being used to fabricate a dental device that causes the starting teeth positions ...