US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Feb. 4 for "Methods of manufacturing dental aligners" (Russian, American, Swiss, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,855, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods of manufacturing dental aligners" was invented by Igor Akopov (Moscow), Anton Lapshin (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Samuel Blanco (Saratoga, Calif.), Artem Kuanbekov (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Eric P. Meyer (Zurich), Andrey Maximov (Kaluzhskaya, Russia), Boris Likhtman (Pushkino, Russia), Michael Flanagan (Redwood City, Calif.), Jason Ramos (San Jose, Costa Rica), Mitra Derakhshan (Herndon, Va.) and Roman A. Roschin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of manufacturing a series of aligners for an orthodontic and/or dental treatment of a p...