US Patent Issued to LightForce Orthodontics on July 29 for "Manufacture of patient-specific orthodontic brackets with tooth-specific breakaway mechanism" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,015, issued on July 29, was assigned to LightForce Orthodontics Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Manufacture of patient-specific orthodontic brackets with tooth-specific breakaway mechanism" was invented by Dylan Winchell (Somerville, Mass.), Samuel VanNoy (Somerville, Mass.), Kelsey A. Fafara (Watertown, Mass.) and Alfred Charles Griffin III (Lynnfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments may provide improved techniques for creating custom lingual or labial ceramic orthodontic brackets, and which provides the capability for in-office fabrication of such brackets. For example, a method of manufacturing customized ceramic labia...