US 12,011,329 B2
Intraoral device
Thien Nguyen, Santa Ana, CA (US); and Tam Thanh Pham, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Solmetex, LLC, Northborough, MA (US)
Filed by SOLMETEX, LLC, Northborough, MA (US)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/217,304.
Application 18/217,304 is a continuation of application No. 14/228,057, filed on Mar. 27, 2014, granted, now 11,744,686.
Application 14/228,057 is a continuation of application No. 14/100,323, filed on Dec. 9, 2013, granted, now 8,911,232, issued on Dec. 16, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/734,939, filed on Dec. 7, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2023/0338124 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. A61C 17/08 (2006.01); A61C 17/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 17/0208 (2013.01) [A61C 17/08 (2019.05)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mouthpiece comprising:
a main body having a first end opposite a second end that is narrower than the first end, the main body comprising:
a first wall having a plurality of first edges and extending from the first end to the second end,
a second wall having a plurality of second edges and located at a distance from the first wall, the distance corresponding to an interior space between the first wall and the second wall, wherein the second wall also extends from the first end to the second end,
a connecting wall that connects one of the first edges of the first wall to one of the second edges of the second wall across the distance between the first wall and the second wall, and
a bridge structure that includes a plurality of spaced protrusions protruding from an interior surface of the second wall, the bridge structure extending across the distance between the first wall and the second wall through the interior space towards the first wall; and
a cheek-retractor portion connected to the narrower second end of the main body portion and expanding outwardly away from the second narrower end, the first wall and the second wall of the main body transitioning into and being connected in the cheek-retractor portion to form the cheek-retractor portion, wherein the first wall and the second wall of the main body portion that transition into the cheek-retractor portion are spaced apart from each other for a distance within the cheek-retractor portion before being connected at the cheek-retractor portion.