ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,735, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Separation and concentration system for ionic compounds in sample, and method for analyzing ionic compounds using same" was invented by Byung Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Sehoon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaehyuk Nam (Daejeon, South Korea), Byoung Hyoun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su Youn Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for separating and concentrating ionic compounds in a sample is provided herein. In some embodiments, a system includes at least one sample separation device, a flexible holder having a plurality of s...