US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Dec. 2 for "3D printed dental appliances with variable thickness regions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,991, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"3D printed dental appliances with variable thickness regions" was invented by Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Allen Boronkay (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Webber (Lafayette, Calif.), Vadim Matov (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivas Kaza (San Francisco), Ryan Kimura (San Jose, Calif.) and Yaser Shanjani (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dental appliances for treatment of a patient's dentition are provided. In some embodiments, a dental appliance includes a plurality of 3D printed polymer layers, where the plurality of 3D printed polymer layers inclu...