ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,054, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of preparing polymeric microparticles, polymeric microparticles, medical composition, cosmetic composition, medical articles and cosmetic articles using the same" was invented by Yunseop Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Youn Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Chanjoong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jee Seon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Oh Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Je Young Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a method of preparing polymeric microparticles comprising further crosslinking with an ...