ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,014, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LightForce Orthodontics Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for orthodontic bracket design" was invented by Alfred Charles Griffin III (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Kelsey A. Fafara (Watertown, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method of manufacturing customized ceramic labial/lingual orthodontic brackets by additive manufacturing may comprise measuring dentition data of a profile of teeth of a patient, based on the dentition data, creating a three dimensional computer-assisted design (3D CAD) model of the patient's teeth, and saving the 3D CAD model, designing a vir...