ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,900, issued on July 15, was assigned to HK INNO.N Corp. (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

"Acid addition salts of benzimidazole derivative" was invented by Eun Sun Kim (Gangwon-do, South Korea), Min Kyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Ah Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kwang Do Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jae Sun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyung Chul Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pidolate salt and malate salt of a compound represented by a formula 1 with an excellent liquid-phase stability, solid-phase stability, water solubility, precipitation stability...