ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,661, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Catalyst for oxychlorination process of hydrocarbon, method for producing same, and method for manufacturing oxychlorinated compound of hydrocarbon by using same" was invented by Jungup Bang (Daejeon, South Korea), Do Heui Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Gyo Hyun Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jongwook Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Yongju Bang (Daejeon, South Korea), Youngseok Ryou (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jeongeun Kim (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst for an oxychlori...