ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,063, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods for cleaning dental appliances" was invented by Fred Ting (San Jose, Calif.), Wesly Wong (Cupertino, Calif.), Zijie Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Byong-Ho Park (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Sato (San Jose, Calif.), Bruce Cam (San Jose, Calif.), Yaser Shanjani (Milpitas, Calif.), Hongling Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zhichao Zhang (Walnut Creek, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of cleaning dental appliances. One or more dental appliances may be placed on a frame in a chamber of a cleaning case. The frame may have a planar shape with openings...