ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,765, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LX HAUSYS LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Artificial marble having high light transmittance" was invented by Yechan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Donghee Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Joongheon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Joo-Hwan Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Seong-Hoon Yue (Seoul, South Korea), Youngwoo Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Hongkwan Cho (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an artificial marble including a binder resin, inorganic particles and quartz powder, in which the inorganic particles are particles including a barium element."
The patent was filed o...