US Patent Issued to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY on June 10 for "Multilayer dental appliances and related methods and systems" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,722, issued on June 10, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multilayer dental appliances and related methods and systems" was invented by Chunhua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Yan Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Heinz Pudleiner (Krefeld, Germany), Klaus Meyer (Dormagen, Germany), Joerg Nickel (Dormagen, Germany) and Craig Pehlert (Lenox, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dental appliance for positioning a patient's teeth includes a removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to directly receive at least some of the patient's teeth and apply a resilient positioning force to ...