ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,306, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems including orthodontic appliance cases and methods of use" was invented by Yaser Shanjani (Milpitas, Calif.), Bruce Cam (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Sato (San Jose, Calif.), John Y. Morton (San Jose, Calif.), Victor Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Chunhua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Allen R. Boronkay (San Jose, Calif.) and Srinivas Kaza (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Orthodontic appliance cases configured to receive the orthodontic appliance and systems including them may include: a first antenna configured to receive the data from t...