ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,558, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Promoter and use thereof" was invented by Nara Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Sojung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Moo Young Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungrim Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Heeyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaemin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Ah Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a novel promoter and a method for producing target materials using the same. More specifically, the present application relates to a novel polynucleotide having promoter activity, a gene expression cassette, ...