US Patent Issued to Digital Smile on Feb. 25 for "Orthodontic apparatus and method for producing an orthodontic apparatus" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,925, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Digital Smile GmbH (Oberegg, Switzerland).

"Orthodontic apparatus and method for producing an orthodontic apparatus" was invented by Simon Graf (Bern, Switzerland), Roland Kiss (Au, Switzerland) and Mark Kabashi (Au, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthodontic apparatus (1; 10) is designed with at least one orthodontically effective element (4; 12) and at least one holding element (5; 13) for holding the apparatus (1; 10) on the jaw, whereby the apparatus (1; 10) is designed in one piece. In a method for producing an orthodontic apparatus, an electronic data set is produced for a ...