Align Technology, Inc.

Smylio Inc.

Immersion Corporation

Other

Sonitus Medical, Inc.

Landec Corporation

Soundmed, LLC

Quanam Medical Corporation

Broncus Technologies, Inc.

Oxular Limited

Miba Medical Inc.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Loc X Phan

Muhammad Chishti

Eric E Kuo

Amir Abolfathi

Ross J Miller

Peter G Knopp

Vahid Saadat

Christopher J Ullrich

Huafeng Wen

Stephen D Rank

Satvir Singh Bhatia

Jean Francois Dionne

H Robert Vandenberg

Bao Quoc Tran

Phi A Nguyen

Michael Froix

Thuan Thien Nguyen

Duy Bui

Ali Modarres

Ray F Stewart

Steven P Bitler

Valentine Y Yoon

Natarajan Balachander

Renjith Menon

Hugues Antoine Oliver

Simon Stertzer

John P Lunsford

Stanley R Conston

Andrew C Beers

Robert Eugene Tricca

Robert Steven Bley

Sean Curry

Robert Eury

Ed Roschak

Tien Thuy Nguyen

Sheldon Baumrind

Ronald K Yamamoto

Linh A Dinh

Nichole Garcia

Huong Dinh

Jae H Anh

Dillon Daniel Martinez

Chunhua Li

Jennifer C Chen

Benjamin Ming Wu

Irina D Pomerantseva

Hugues-Antoine Oliver

Irina Pomerantseva

Brian K Asselin

Jae Hyun Ahn

H Robert Van Den Berg

An orthodontic appliance is constructed from shells shaped to receive teeth. The shells can be constructed from one or more polymer materials and stacked and also varyingly affixed to one another, which can include affixing only about the edge of each shell. The orthodontic appliance can be one of a series of similar appliances for incremental orthodontic modification of teeth.

Elastic orthodontic appliances, systems, and methods for use

An orthodontic appliance is constructed from shells shaped to receive teeth. The shells can be constructed from one or more polymer materials and affixed to one another about the edge of each shell, defining a narrow elongate chamber therebetween. The chamber serves to allow for the first shell contacting the teeth to flex and fit a wide range of teeth without sacrificing the overall flexural modulus of the appliance. Methods of making the appliance are also described.

Orthodontic appliances formed from a material that includes an interpenetrating polymer network or semi-interpenetrating polymer network material to prevent or reduce stress relaxation of the material during use by a patient. Methods for forming orthodontic appliances from a material that includes from an interpenetrating polymer network or semi-interpenetrating polymer network material to prevent or reduce stress relaxation of the material during use by a patient.

Stress relaxation resistant orthodontic appliances

The present invention provides a drug composition comprising particles comprising a biodegradable or bioerodable polymer and a drug, a soluble, biodegradable or bioerodible excipient, a bulking agent and a reconstitution aid. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical formulation and a unit dosage form of the pharmaceutical formulation. The invention provides methods of treatment of a disease or condition accordingly. The invention also provides a drug composition for use in a cannulation device.

Ophthalmic drug compositions

A system with a saliva sampling device configured to be orally worn by a patient. The saliva sampling device is a polymer retainer or aligner. A saliva analysis engine is used to correlate one or more analytes of one or more saliva samples with one or more health attributes. A health monitoring engine updates a health profile of the patient based on the correlated health attributes.

Saliva collection and testing system

A graphical user interface ('GUI') is generated on the display, the GUI has a graphical depiction that simulates a translucence level of an oral appliance. The graphical depiction of the translucence level is adjustable based on a user input. A value based on the user selected translucence level is sent to an external device for determination of manufacturing parameters for the oral appliance.

Systems and methods for customizing oral appliance appearance

Sterile lyophilized drug compositions and methods for treating ocular diseases or conditions

An orthodontic appliance shaped to receive teeth. The orthodontic appliance can be constructed from a laminate structure with an outer transparent layer and an inner translucent layer. The translucent layer can scatter light to decrease a relative degree or perceived gloss to the human eye, and hence provide a more natural appearance to the orthodontic appliance.

Orthodontic appliances and materials

Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a tooth or teeth are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device. The electronic and transducer assembly may receive incoming sounds either directly or through a receiver to process and amplify the signals and transmit the processed sounds via a vibrating transducer element coupled to a tooth or other bone structure, such as the maxillary, mandibular, or palatine bone structure.

Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations

The disclosure relates to systems and methods of providing haptic feedback based on media content and one or more external parameters used to customize the haptic feedback. The system may modify or otherwise alter haptic feedback that is determined using the media content alone. In other words, the system may use both the media content and the external parameters to determine haptic feedback that should be output to the user or others. The external parameters may include, for example, sensor information, customization information, and/or other external parameters that may be used to customize the haptic feedback.

Method and apparatus to provide haptic feedback based on media content and one or more external parameters

A dental template to position an object on a patient's tooth includes digitizing the patient's tooth; adding virtual objects to predetermined locations on the digitized tooth; and fabricating the dental template to locate the object on the patient's tooth. The template can be used for etching or for positioning brackets on teeth.

Systems and methods for fabricating a dental template

A method includes receiving digital content data including audio data and/or video data, generating haptic data using at least some of the received digital content data, encoding the haptic data for efficient transmission over a communication network, multiplexing the encoded haptic data with the received digital content data, embedding information for decoding the encoded haptic data in metadata of the multiplexed data stream, and sending the multiplexed data stream over the communication network. The method may include analyzing the haptic data to determine at least one characteristic of the haptic data, and the encoding the haptic data may include encoding, based on the determined characteristic, the haptic data to meet a pre-defined criteria.

Method and system for haptic data encoding and streaming using a multiplexed data stream

Growing community of inventors

San Jose, CA, United States of America

Loc X Phan