ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,644, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SEOUL VIOSYS Co. LTD. (Ansan-si, South Korea).

"Light irradiation apparatus" was invented by Hee Ho Bae (Ansan-si, South Korea), Yeong Min Yoon (Ansan-si, South Korea) and A Young Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light irradiation device including an injection unit to inject a sample, and a light source to apply light to the sample to identify an abnormal cell in the sample, the light source including a substrate and a light emitter including a light emitting diode, in which the light emitted is to cut a genetic material in the sample into sections of different sizes,...