ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,298, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Orthodontic articles comprising polyester urethane (meth)acrylate polymer and monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, methods, and polymerizable compositions" was invented by Thomas P. Klun (Lakeland, Minn.), Richard J. Pokorny (Maplewood, Minn.), Chad M. Amb (Roberts, Wis.), Benjamin R. Coonce (South St. Paul, Minn.), Tianyu Wu (St. Paul, Minn.), Saswata Chakraborty (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Yongshang Lu (Woodbury, Minn.), Benjamin C. Mac Murray (Minneapolis), Robert S. Clough (St. Paul, Minn.), Ahmed S. Abuelyaman (Woodbury, Minn.) and John M. Riedesel (San Jose, Calif.).

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