ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,462, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LightForce Orthodontics Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Manufacture of patient-specific orthodontic tube" was invented by Samuel VanNoy (Somerville, Mass.), Dylan Winchell (Canton, Mass.), Kelsey A. Fafara (Watertown, Mass.), Oisin Duggan (Somerville, Mass.) and Alfred Charles Griffin III (Lynnfield, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to the methodology of direct manufacture of a customized labial/lingual orthodontic tube by using a ceramic slurry-based additive manufacturing (AM) technology. For example, a method of manufacturing customized ceramic labial/lingual orthodontic tu...