ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,779, issued on July 22, was assigned to PLASMAPP Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Sterilization apparatus and sterilization method" was invented by Youbong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a sterilization apparatus and a sterilization method. The sterilization method includes: an operation in which a sterilant injection block for containing a sterilant and providing a sterilant injection path for injecting the sterilant or a vacuum packaging pouch having the sterilant injection block is mounted inside a vacuum chamber; and an operation in which the vacuum chamber is operated in ...