Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
MC

Michael Christopher Cole — 66 Patents

ATAlign Technology: 35 patents #31 of 483Top 7%
ITInphase Technologies: 8 patents #7 of 85Top 9%
GEGeneial: 8 patents #6 of 188Top 4%
UCUniversity of Colorado, A Body Corporate: 2 patents #198 of 1,219Top 20%
TDThe Dial: 1 patents #165 of 333Top 50%
UCUniversity of Colorado: 1 patents #288 of 930Top 35%
The Boeing: 1 patents #8,630 of 15,756Top 55%
BABayer Materialscience Ag: 1 patents #483 of 1,035Top 50%
GPGbe Internatinal Plc: 1 patents #4 of 10Top 40%
LCLancaster Colony: 1 patents #10 of 21Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #607 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #4,970 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #32,599 of 4,157,543Top 1%
66 Patents All Time
Michael Christopher Cole has been granted 66 US patents while listed as an inventor at Align Technology. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in November 2025. Michael Christopher Cole ranks #32,599 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.78%). Patent records list Michael Christopher Cole in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 66 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12472720 Materials and additively manufactured objects with mechanically interlocking elements Umesh Upendra Choudhary, Crystal Tjhia 2025-11-18
12351660 Low viscosity photo-curable resins for the direct fabrication of orthodontic appliances Blaine CARTER, Jennifer Chavez, Lance Robert Pickens, Peter Dorfinger, Yan Chen 2025-07-08
12343938 Recoating system including moving blade Viswanath Meenakshisundaram, Peter Dorfinger, Umesh Upendra Choudhary 2025-07-01
12290979 Hybrid 3d printing techniques Mehdi Mojdeh, Peter Dorfinger, Shiva P. Sambu 2025-05-06
12286493 Systems for fabricating appliances from polymerizable compositions 2025-04-29
12269226 Methods for selective post-curing of additively manufactured objects Peter Dorfinger 2025-04-08
12257125 Indicia for dental appliances Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ramin Heydarpour, John Morton, Jun Sato, Mehdi Mojdeh +4 more 2025-03-25
12226280 Direct fabrication of orthodontic appliances with 4D printing Avi Kopelman, Chunhua Li, Blaine CARTER, Matthew Marc Durban 2025-02-18
12215223 Crystallizable resins Jennifer Chavez 2025-02-04
12208577 Recoating system with reduced resin evaporation Viswanath Meenakshisundaram, Peter Dorfinger, Umesh Upendra Choudhary 2025-01-28
12202250 Method of inkjet printing onto aligners 2025-01-21
12115719 Systems and method for additive manufacturing of dental devices using photopolymer resins Siobhan O'Leary, Peter Webber 2024-10-15 $157,073,000
12098227 3D printed composites from phase separated materials Peter Dorfinger 2024-09-24 $29,906,000
12097655 Hybrid 3D printing with photo-curable materials Mehdi Mojdeh, Peter Dorfinger, Shiva P. Sambu 2024-09-24 $29,906,000
12053925 Recoating system including multiple blades Viswanath Meenakshisundaram, Peter Dorfinger, Umesh Upendra Choudhary 2024-08-06 $75,882,000
12049528 Photopolymerizable block polymers and methods of producing and using the same Umesh Upendra Choudhary, Jessica Kalay SU, Jennifer Chavez 2024-07-30 $33,279,000
11884758 Methods for fabricating appliances from polymerizable compositions 2024-01-30 $62,406,000
11851510 Low viscosity photo-curable resins for the direct fabrication of orthodontic appliances Blaine CARTER, Jennifer Chavez, Lance Robert Pickens, Peter Dorfinger, Yan Chen 2023-12-26 $85,555,000
11845868 Weak covalent crosslinks in thermoset materials for increased toughness 2023-12-19 $254,543,000
11839520 Durable ornamental indicia carrier Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ramin Heydarpour, John Morton, Jun Sato, Mehdi Mojdeh +4 more 2023-12-12 $58,482,000
11779243 Customized aligner change indicator Huizhong Li, Andrew Jang, Yuxiang Wang, Jun Sato, Allen Boronkay 2023-10-10 $79,794,000
11718019 System for hybrid 3D printing with photo-curable materials Mehdi Mojdeh, Peter Dorfinger, Shiva P. Sambu 2023-08-08 $64,004,000
11661468 Additive manufacturing using variable temperature-controlled resins Peter Dorfinger 2023-05-30 $134,514,000
11471253 Durable ornamental indicia carrier Sriram Venkatasanthanam, Ramin Heydarpour, John Morton, Jun Sato, Mehdi Mojdeh +4 more 2022-10-18 $50,675,000
11434316 3D printed composites from a single resin by patterned light exposures 2022-09-06 $48,364,000