US Patent Issued to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Systems and methods for mandibular advancement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,677, issued on June 17, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for mandibular advancement" was invented by Bruce Cam (San Jose, Calif.), Crystal Tjhia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chunhua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Vadim Matov (San Jose, Calif.) and John Morton (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved systems, methods, and devices for treating sleep apnea are provided herein. In one aspect, an intraoral appliance for treating sleep apnea in a patient comprises an appliance shell comprising a plurality of cavities shaped to receive teeth of a jaw of the patient. The appliance shell can com...