ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,862, issued on July 1, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Human intestinal epithelium model and method for preparing same" was invented by Mi Young Son (Daejeon, South Korea), Ohman Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Bo Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyeong-Ryoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Cho Rok Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Janghwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for preparing a human intestinal epithelial model. The human intestinal epithelial model, prepared by the method according to the present inv...