ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,125, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Indicia for dental appliances" was invented by Sriram Venkatasanthanam (Chino Hills, Calif.), Ramin Heydarpour (Beverly Hills, Calif.), John Y. Morton (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Sato (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Christopher Cole (Longmont, Colo.), Mehdi Mojdeh (Fremont, Calif.), Prashanth Vanchy (Los Angeles), Natalia Lysaya Powers (San Jose, Calif.), Sibel Narin (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Jeremy Riley (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming dental appliance having an ornamental indicia carrier may include forming a polyme...