ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,964, issued on June 10, was assigned to Brady Corporation Limited (Banbury, Great Britain).

"Modular post" was invented by Paul J. Ingleby (Southam, Great Britain), Alexander James Hinton (Bury, Great Britain), Edward Barnes (Sale, Great Britain) and Richard Peter Rorison Sutherland (Kington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular post for use in a barrier system comprises a post component and a base. The post component is configured to be attached or attachable on, to or in the base in a deployed configuration. The post component is configured to be housed within the base when the modular post is in a stored configur...