ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,061, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea) and IMMUNOMET THERAPEUTICS INC. (Houston).

"Composition for promoting hair growth comprising a guanine derivative" was invented by Myung Jin Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung-Sook Chung (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Wuk Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jiae Kook (Daejeon, South Korea), Hong Bum Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sanghee Yoo (Houston), Youjeong Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Seonju Mun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jiwon Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Sung Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Th...