US Patent Issued to Align Technology on Nov. 4 for "Attachments for fabricated custom objects" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,162, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Attachments for fabricated custom objects" was invented by Gabor Lukacs (Raleigh, N.C.), Jack Shaw (Durham, N.C.), Alexey Kalinichenko (Cary, N.C.), Arthur George Butz (Durham, N.C.), Mehdi Mojdeh (Fremont, Calif.) and Enrique Soltero Borrego (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a mold of a dental arch of a patient. The mold includes teeth extending from a first distal end of the dental arch to a second distal end of the dental arch. An orthodontic aligner is to be formed over the teeth of the mold. The teeth of the mol...