ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,236, issued on July 1, was assigned to VP INNOVATO HOLDINGS LTD. (Oroklini, Cyprus).

"Scan posts system and method" was invented by Ioannis Vergoullis (Rhodes, Greece) and Georgios Papadopoulos (Rhodes, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scan posts system with scan posts is presented. Each scan post includes a scan post core and a scan post body surrounding the core and resting in the shoulder of the core. At least part of the scan post body is intended to be in contact with healing tissue. Each scan post body belongs to a group of scan post bodies including at least a combination of two different shapes with three different size...