ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,672, issued on June 17.
"Orthodontic/orthopaedic device and method" was invented by Joseph Da Cruz (Queanbeyan, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a device. The method includes fitting the device onto a first jaw of a patient, the device having a platform contoured for contact with teeth of the first jaw, identifying a set of contact areas between the device and teeth of a second jaw of the patient when the first and second jaws are moved towards each other, shaping, adjusting and/or trimming the device on the basis of the set of contact areas to change a location of at least one contact area, and repeatin...