ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,930, issued on June 16, was assigned to Novaprint Therapeutics Suzhou Co. Ltd (Jiangsu, China).

"Alveolar bone augmentation scaffold system" was invented by Dongxu Ke (Suzhou, China) and Xi Yang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an alveolar bone augmentation scaffold system. The scaffold system includes the following structures: a porous augmentation scaffold fabricated by 3D printing using composite materials for filling alveolar bone defects; a mechanical separating plate, wrapped around the porous augmentation scaffold with a biomimetic structure for restoring alveolar bone defects; the augmentation scaffol...