ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,969, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CURIOSIS Co. LTD (Seoul, South Korea).

"Stage assembly with vent structure for preventing condensation" was invented by Young Ho Park (Anyang-si, South Korea), Sung Eun An (Incheon, South Korea) and Bong Woo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a stage assembly with a vent structure for preventing condensation by making a flow path in the stage so that air around the vessel on the stage passes through the inside of the equipment for making the temperature of a stage-direction surface of a vessel similar to the ambient temperature of the vessel to...