US Patent Issued to ORTHODONTIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT on Oct. 20 for "Additive manufacturing for orthodontic treatments" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,967, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ORTHODONTIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Additive manufacturing for orthodontic treatments" was invented by Luis Carriere Lluch (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods for generating an input file for a 3D printer, the methods comprising visualizing a virtual model of a patient's teeth on a display, visualizing a predefined virtual orthodontic treatment device on the display and adapting a shape of the predefined virtual orthodontic treatment device in response to user input. The method then comprises generating an input file for a 3D ...