ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,255, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SOMNOMED Ltd. (Crows Nest, Australia).

"Method of manufacturing an intraoral device" was invented by Joshua Luke Meier (Berowra, Australia), Christopher Russell Bedford (Rozelle, Australia), Wataru Obuchi (Maroubra, Australia), Harrison John Wood (Ourimbah, Australia) and Terrence Quach (Lidcombe, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an intraoral device (1) including: obtaining an impression of at least one row of a patient's teeth; transferring said impression into a processor; said processor communicating with a milling machine; milling a blank of a first materia...