US Patent Issued to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY on April 1 for "Orthodontic appliance systems for correcting malocclusions" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,060, issued on April 1, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Orthodontic appliance systems for correcting malocclusions" was invented by Mitra Derakhshan (Herndon, Va.), Crystal Tjhia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rohit Tanugula (San Jose, Calif.), Yaser Shanjani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ryan Kimura (San Jose, Calif.), Bruce Cam (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Yau (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuxiang Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Ken Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Webber (Redwood City, Calif.), Jun Sato (San Jose, Calif.) and John Y. Morton (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for correcting malocclusions may include a maxilla...