US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 15 for "Methods for controling post-processing operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,435, issued on July 15, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for controling post-processing operations" was invented by Srinivas Kaza (Mountain View, Calif.), Shiva P. Sambu (Milpitas, Calif.), Kamesh Tata (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael J. Doung (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Long Phan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for controlling post-processing operations are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes detecting that a plurality of partially cured items have been loaded into a spin station. The plurality of partially cured items can be fabricated from a polymeric resin usin...