US Patent Issued to Align Technology on June 3 for "Methods for manufacturing and inspecting orthodontic aligners" (American, Russian, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,093, issued on June 3, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for manufacturing and inspecting orthodontic aligners" was invented by Anatoliy Parpara (Moscow), Ivan Kharpalev (Tver, Russia), Stephan Albert Alexandre Dumothier (Houston), Andrey Cherkas (Krasnoznamensk, Russia), Alexey Kalinichenko (Cary, N.C.), Jack Shaw (Durham, N.C.) and Israel Velazquez (Juarez, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes manufacturing an orthodontic aligner and assessing a quality of the orthodontic aligner. Assessing the quality of the orthodontic aligner comprises receiving a digital representation of the o...