US Patent Issued to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY on May 26 for "Method to visualize and manufacture aligner by modifying tooth position" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,124, issued on May 26, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method to visualize and manufacture aligner by modifying tooth position" was invented by Vadim Matov (San Jose, Calif.), Fuming Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jihua Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Jennifer Chen (Alhambra, Calif.), Chunhua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Bastien Pesenti (San Jose, Calif.) and Igor Kvasov (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Orthodontic systems and related methods are disclosed for designing and providing improved or more effective tooth moving systems for eliciting a desired tooth movement and/or repositioning teeth into a des...