ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,408, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BIOT KOREA INC. (Gwangju, South Korea) and KOREA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL MICROROBOTICS (Gwangju, South Korea).
"Chitosan porous structure-based magnetically actuated microrobot" was invented by Jong Oh Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Chang Sei Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Eun Pyo Choi (Gwangju, South Korea), Gwang Jun Go (Gwangju, South Korea), Hyeong Woo Song (Jeollanam-do, South Korea), Yeong Jun Chang (Seoul, South Korea) and Ami Yoo (Gwangju, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a porous structure-based magnetically actuated microrobot and a fabricating m...