ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,220, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Super absorbent polymer and preparation method thereof" was invented by Yu Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Seongkyun Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kiyoul Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Gicheul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yoon Jae Min (Daejeon, South Korea), Seul Ah Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ui Seok Chung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a super absorbent polymer, and a preparation method thereof. More specifically, it relates to a super absorbent polymer prepared such tha...