ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,977, issued on April 15, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Gyeongsangnam-Do, South Korea) and KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Method for biologically producing acetin compound" was invented by Seon Won Kim (Sejong-si, South Korea), Seong Hee Jeong (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea), Kyung Jin Kim (Daegu, South Korea) and Zada Bakht (Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for biologically producing acetin such as monoacetin, diacetin, or triacetin according to an embodiment of the present disc...