ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,457, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KLOwen Braces Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Dental bracket bonding tray and bracket loading quality control system" was invented by Brandon Owen (Lakeway, Texas) and Jerry Dean Metz (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quality control system for maintaining quality control standards in the manufacture of indirect bonding trays and loading brackets into the indirect bonding trays."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/120,125.

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