US Patent Issued to Align Technology on April 8 for "Methods for selective post-curing of additively manufactured objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,226, issued on April 8, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for selective post-curing of additively manufactured objects" was invented by Peter Dorfinger (Woodside, Calif.) and Michael Christopher Cole (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for manufacturing objects are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a dental appliance formed using an additive manufacturing process, the dental appliance including a plurality of appliance portions. The method can include identifying, based on sensor data, a location of a subset of the appliance portions on the dental a...