US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for managing force application during mandibular advancement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,342, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing force application during mandibular advancement" was invented by Bruce Cam (San Jose, Calif.), Crystal Tjhia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chunhua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Vadim Matov (San Jose, Calif.) and John Morton (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mandibular advancement may include determining a threshold force value for an amount of anterior-posterior force to be applied to the patient's teeth to displace the patient's lower jaw anteriorly relative to the patient's upper jaw, determining a force ...