US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI SMARTEE DENTI-TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "Shell-like orthodontic appliance, design method and manufacturing method for the same, orthodontic appliance set and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,969, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHANGHAI SMARTEE DENTI-TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Shell-like orthodontic appliance, design method and manufacturing method for the same, orthodontic appliance set and system" was invented by Huimin Zhuang (Shanghai), Jie Shen (Shanghai), Gang Wu (Shanghai), Xingxing Wang (Shanghai), Junfeng Yao (Shanghai), Tao Guo (Shanghai), Jianyu Jiang (Shanghai), Te Wang (Shanghai), Ziqing Xu (Shanghai) and Gang Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shell-like orthodontic appliance includes a shell-like body provided with a cavity accommodating a plurality of maxillary teeth. A sagittal adju...