US Patent Issued to Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology on Feb. 10 for "Micro-magnetic invisible orthodontic appliance" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,191, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).

"Micro-magnetic invisible orthodontic appliance" was invented by LiLi Chen (Wuhan, China), QingMing Tang (Wuhan, China), JiWei Sun (Wuhan, China) and JunYuan Zhang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-magnetic invisible orthodontic appliance is provided. The micro-magnetic invisible orthodontic appliance includes a bottom brace (1), an outer periodontal brace (2) and an inner periodontal brace (3). The bottom brace (1), the outer periodontal brace (2) and the inner periodontal b...