ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,233, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition comprising MLS-STAT3 for prevention or treatment of immune disease" was invented by Mi-La Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sung-Hwan Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seon-Yeong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Su-Jin Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Eun-kyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jun-Geol Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Si-Yeong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong-Won Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung-Ah Jung (Goyang-si, South Korea), A-Ram Lee (Jinju-si, South Korea), Chul-Woo Yang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeong-Hyeon Moon (Gumi-si, South Korea).

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