US Patent Issued to Align Technology on July 29 for "Manufacturing aligners having cut line markings" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,017, issued on July 29, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Manufacturing aligners having cut line markings" was invented by Avi Kopelman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a dental appliance includes receiving a digital three-dimensional model of a mold for a dental arch of a patient, the digital three-dimensional model of the mold comprising one or more features associated with a cut line. The method further includes fabricating the mold by a rapid prototyping machine using the digital three-dimensional model, the mold having the one or more features. The method further ...