ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,311, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Align Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dental appliance systems with eruption tabs" was invented by Jon F. Moss (Antioch, Calif.) and Rene M. Sterental (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dental appliance systems with appliances having eruption tabs. The dental appliance systems may include at least a first shell and a second shell each shaped to receive teeth of respective first and second jaws of a patient. The first and second shells may include respective first and second eruption tabs that extend from respective first and second posterior tooth-receiving cavities of the s...