US Patent Issued on Dec. 16 for "Method and computer program for designing straightening aligners" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,163, issued on Dec. 16.

"Method and computer program for designing straightening aligners" was invented by Tae Weon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer program for designing straightening aligners are disclosed. The method for designing straightening aligners according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes generating current alignment information representing a patient's current tooth alignment state, and generating orthodontic alignment information for multiple orthodontic steps that are reached sequentially by correcting the current alignment information, wherein gener...