US Patent Issued to Align Technology on May 26 for "Systems and methods for generating directly manufacturable dental appliances" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,835, issued on May 26, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating directly manufacturable dental appliances" was invented by Chunhua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Bastien Pesenti (San Jose, Calif.), Roman A. Roschin (Moscow), Jun Sato (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuxiang Wang (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for computer-aided design, digital treatment planning, and direct additive manufacturing of dental appliances are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a treatment plan for a patient's teeth, the treatment plan specifying a targ...