Y10T 29/49568
Orthodontic device making
Y10T29/49568 (Orthodontic device making) appears on 140 US grants and 169 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y10T- Granted patents
- 140
- Published applications
- 169
- Assignees
- 47
- Inventors
- 172
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Patterned dental positioning appliances9 Jun 2026US 12,648,834 B2Align Technology, Inc.
- Apparatus and method for customized shaping of orthodontic archwires and other medical devices12 May 2026US 12,623,272 B2DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
- Adjusting a tooth position10 Feb 2026US 12,544,192 B2Align Technology, Inc.
- Dental appliances and associated systems and methods25 Nov 2025US 12,478,456 B2Brius Technologies, Inc.
- Methods of forming wire attachment dental appliances11 Nov 2025US 12,465,461 B2Align Technology, Inc.
- Wire attachment dental appliances5 Feb 2026US 2026/0033920 A1Align Technology, Inc.
- Dental appliances and associated systems and methods11 Dec 2025US 2025/0375266 A1Brius Technologies, Inc.
- Orthodontic systems with variable attachment and well geometries4 Dec 2025US 2025/0366953 A1Align Technology, Inc.
- Dental appliances and associated systems and methods30 Jan 2025US 2025/0032218 A1Brius Technologies, Inc.
- Methods of forming wire attachment dental appliances8 Aug 2024US 2024/0261065 A1Align Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dental wire attachment220US 8,292,617 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2012
- Dental appliance with simulated teeth and method for making180US 8,936,463 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2015
- Patterned dental positioning appliance177US 9,241,774 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2016
- Tactile objects for orthodontics, systems and methods167US 8,708,697 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2014
- Systems and methods for fabricating a dental template166US 7,056,115 B2Align Technology, Inc. · 2006