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Yaser Shanjani — 55 Patents

ATAlign Technology: 48 patents #19 of 483Top 4%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
Stanford University: 2 patents #1,354 of 5,197Top 30%
Milpitas, CA: #62 of 3,192 inventorsTop 2%
California: #6,830 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #45,454 of 4,157,543Top 2%
55 Patents All Time
Yaser Shanjani has been granted 55 US patents while listed as an inventor at Align Technology. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in December 2025. Yaser Shanjani ranks #45,454 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Yaser Shanjani in Milpitas, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2024.peak 142017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 6 patents20212022: 6 patents20222023: 10 patents20232024: 14 patents20242025: 11 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 55 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12491049 Methods and systems for fabricating dental appliances with integrally formed arch expander Avi Kopelman, Allen Boronkay, Peter Webber, Vadim Matov, Srinivas Kaza +1 more 2025-12-09
12484991 3D printed dental appliances with variable thickness regions Avi Kopelman, Allen Boronkay, Peter Webber, Vadim Matov, Srinivas Kaza +1 more 2025-12-02
12426992 Systems including orthodontic appliance cases and methods of use Bruce Cam, Jun Sato, John Morton, Victor Chen, Chunhua Li +2 more 2025-09-30
12409015 Intraoral appliances with cellular structures Jun Sato, Ryan Kimura 2025-09-09
12390307 Augmented reality enhancements for dental practitioners Bruce Cam 2025-08-19
12357429 Methods of forming orthodontic devices with palatal anchorage Jun Sato, Ryan Kimura, Ken Wu, Bastien Pesenti, Bruce Cam 2025-07-15
12281957 Methodology and application of acoustic detection of optical integrity Michael K. McCord, Ehsan Khajeh, Brian Michael King, Tong Chen 2025-04-22
12263060 Orthodontic appliance systems for correcting malocclusions Mitra Derakhshan, Crystal Tjhia, Rohit Tanugula, Ryan Kimura, Bruce Cam +6 more 2025-04-01
12233590 Dental appliances with folded material components Jun Sato, Ryan Kimura 2025-02-25
12232928 Systems for determining patient compliance with an orthodontic treatment or retention plan Bruce Cam, Jun Sato, John Morton, Victor Chen, Chunhua Li +2 more 2025-02-25
12226279 Methods of forming appliances for arch expansion Avi Kopelman, Allen Boronkay, Ryan Kimura 2025-02-18
12171633 Sensors for monitoring oral appliances Bruce Cam, Jun Sato 2024-12-24 $25,277,000
12156714 Methods and systems for imaging removable dental appliances Jun Sato, Allen Boronkay, Reza SHIRAZI AGHJARI, Avi Kopelman, Andrew Jang +4 more 2024-12-03 $68,385,000
12144704 Energy-delivering orthodontic aligner systems Bruce Cam, Jun Sato 2024-11-19 $33,180,000
12133314 Electronic devices having failsafe mechanisms with near field communications Michael K. McCord, Tong Chen 2024-10-29 $278,906,000
12109090 Palatal expanders for controlling crown tipping Fuming Wu, Ryan Kimura, Jeremy RILEY, Norman C. Su, Jun Sato +3 more 2024-10-08 $54,660,000
12097086 Palatal expanders and methods of designing palatal expanders Fuming Wu, Ryan Kimura, Jeremy RILEY, Norman C. Su, Jun Sato +3 more 2024-09-24 $29,906,000
12097085 Palatal expanders with breach regions Avi Kopelman, Ryan Kimura, Jeremy RILEY, Jun Sato, Bob Grove +1 more 2024-09-24 $29,906,000
12090023 Aligner material, cleanliness, and quality detection via aligner case Jun Sato, Bruce Cam 2024-09-17 $61,784,000
12082986 Methods for direct fabrication of dental appliances with varying feature thicknesses and associated systems Avi Kopelman, Allen Boronkay, Peter Webber, Vadim Matov, Srinivas Kaza +1 more 2024-09-10 $40,552,000
12064314 Dental appliance compliance monitoring Bruce Cam, Edi Fridman, Sergey Vinnichenko, Jun Sato 2024-08-20 $27,832,000
11974898 Palatal expanders and methods of expanding a palate Jeremy RILEY, Ryan Kimura, Jun Sato, Norman C. Su, Jihua Cheng +1 more 2024-05-07 $34,453,000
11974897 Palatal expanders and methods of forming the same Jeremy RILEY, Ryan Kimura, Jun Sato, Norman C. Su, Jihua Cheng +1 more 2024-05-07 $34,453,000
11944514 Methods for fabricating dental appliances with integrally formed components Avi Kopelman, Allen Boronkay, Peter Webber, Vadim Matov, Srinivas Kaza +1 more 2024-04-02 $124,542,000
11931223 Cellular architecture for controlled focal stiffness across intraoral appliances Jun Sato, Ryan Kimura 2024-03-19 $122,936,000