ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,103, issued on June 10, was assigned to SK SILTRON Co. LTD. (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

"Carrier recycling process" was invented by Soo Cheon Jang (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier recycling process designed to recycle carriers discarded after use for a certain period of time. The carrier recycling process includes dipping a carrier to be discarded in an organic solvent to remove a bond and to separate a body and an insert from each other, securing a surface roughness of one side surface of the body from which the insert has been separated, depositing a diamond-like-carbon (DLC) coating laye...