ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,322, issued on April 29, was assigned to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition for detecting hydrogen sulfide or measuring hydrogen sulfide concentration and composition comprising same as effective ingredient for diagnosing or imaging in vivo inflammation, tissues having hypoxic damage, or cancer" was invented by Jae Min Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Young Ju Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yun-Sang Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Yong Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for detecting hydrogen sulfide or measuring a concentration of hydr...