ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,377, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods for designing attachment placement appliances" was invented by Allen Boronkay (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of planning dental treatments are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes determining a plurality of stages for incremental repositioning of a patient's teeth. The method can include determining, for at least one stage, a shape of a corresponding dental appliance body, and generating instructions for direct fabrication of the dental appliance body. The dental appliance body can include a support formed ...