US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Aug. 11 for "Relapse prevention retainer" (California, North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,528, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Relapse prevention retainer" was invented by Ken Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Huizhong Li (San Jose, Calif.), Mitra Derakhshan (Herndon, Va.), Zhou Yu (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Nishimuta (Durham, N.C.), Yuxiang Wang (Newark, Calif.), Xi Cai (San Jose, Calif.), Rohit Tanugula (San Jose, Calif.), Jeeyoung Choi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eric Yau (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jun Sato (San Jose, Calif.) and John Y. Morton (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for customized retainers to prevent relapse. In particular, described herein a...