US Patent Issued to AirWay Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Methods for manufacturing an oral appliance" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,622, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AirWay Technologies LLC (Farmers Branch, Texas).

"Methods for manufacturing an oral appliance" was invented by Alastair E. McAuley (Auckland, New Zealand) and Charles F. Collins (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forming a first layer of a disk, the first layer comprising a first material and forming a second layer of the disk by depositing a second material on the first layer. The method further includes irradiating at least the second layer of the disk to cross-link the second material. The first material has a higher melting point than the second material, and the dual-...