US Patent Issued to LightForce Orthodontics on April 29 for "Ceramic processing for the direct manufacture of customized labial and lingual orthodontic brackets" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,619, issued on April 29, was assigned to LightForce Orthodontics Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Ceramic processing for the direct manufacture of customized labial and lingual orthodontic brackets" was invented by Alfred Charles Griffin III (Lynnfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing customized ceramic labial/lingual orthodontic brackets by digital light processing, said method comprises measuring dentition data of a profile of teeth of a patient, wherein measuring dentition data is performed using a CT scanner or intra-oral scanner, based on the dentition data, creating a three dimensional computer-assisted ...