ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,879, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for preparing disodium 5'-guanylate heptahydrate crystal" was invented by Jung Hwa Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Min Jong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chang Yub Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Hwa Yeon Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Seok Hyun Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Yu Shin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Hun Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Il Chul Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Hun Yu (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of preparing disodium 5'-guanylate heptahydrate crystals from an aqueous 5'-guanylic acid solution."

The pate...