US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 21 for "Methods for additively manufacturing medical devices using bioglass fiber reinforced polymers" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,616, issued on July 21, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for additively manufacturing medical devices using bioglass fiber reinforced polymers" was invented by Jurgen Stampfl (Vienna), Yan Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunhua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Peter Dorfinger (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Alexander Hochwallner (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for manufacturing medical devices, such as implants, joint replacements, graft materials, augmentation materials, prosthetic materials, etc., from solid material reinforced curable resins. Methods of repositioning a patient'...