ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,502, issued on March 18, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"L-glufosinate intermediate and L-glufosinate preparation method" was invented by Jinwoo Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Joo Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Changsuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Ok Moon (Seoul, South Korea) and In Seok Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are L-glufosinate intermediate preparation method or L-glufosinate preparation method, the method, for preparing L-glufosinate intermediate or L-glufosinate from an L-homoserine derivative, comprising a step of preparing a comp...