US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Feb. 10 for "Mold arch reinforcement and labeling for dental appliance manufacturing" (Mexican, Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,201, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mold arch reinforcement and labeling for dental appliance manufacturing" was invented by Enrique Soltero Borrego (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico), Denis Fadeev (Moscow), Alexey Kalinichenko (Cary, N.C.), Anatoliy Parpara (Moscow), Fernando Jose Lopez Diaz (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico), Daniel Antonio Hernandez Lopez (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) and Isidro Salvador Gonzalez Tobias (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold for a dental appliance includes a dental arch portion and a beam. The dental arch portion is associated with teeth of a user. The dent...