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Patent No.:

US 12765968 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2020

Manufacturing a dental appliance with a surface having discrete structures

Applicant:

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Eagan, MN (US);

Inventors:

Bhaskar V. Velamakanni, Woodbury, MN (US);

Kevin T. Reddy, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Matthew S. Stay, Bloomington, MN (US);

Matthew R.D. Smith, Woodbury, MN (US);

Kevin W. Gotrik, Hudson, WI (US);

Mikhail L. Pekurovsky, Bloomington, MN (US);

Scott J. Jones, Woodbury, MN (US);

Ta-Hua Yu, Woodbury, MN (US);

Thomas J. Metzler, Saint Paul, MN (US);

Assignee:

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Eagan, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Xiao S Zhao

Assistant Examiner:

Nicholas J Chidiac

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 7/08 (2006.01); A01N 37/12 (2006.01); A61C 19/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 7/08 (2013.01); A01N 37/12 (2013.01); A61C 19/063 (2013.01); A61C 2201/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for making a dental appliance configured to position at least one tooth of a patient includes printing a hardenable liquid resin composition on a major surface of a polymeric material to form a pattern of discrete unhardened liquid regions thereon; at least partially hardening the unhardened liquid regions to form a corresponding array of structures on the major surface of the polymeric material, wherein the structures have a characteristic cross-sectional dimension of about 25 microns to about 1 mm, and a feature spacing of about 100 microns to about 2000 microns; and forming a plurality of cavities in the polymeric material to form the dental appliance including an arrangement of cavities configured to receive one or more teeth.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Velamakanni, Bhaskar. (2026). Manufacturing a dental appliance with a surface having discrete structures (U.S. Patent No. 12765968). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12765968

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