ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,086, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOOLGEN Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificially engineered SC function control system" was invented by Seok Joong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Woo Song (Seoul, South Korea), Young Bin Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Byung Ok Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an artificially manipulated SC function-controlling factor for SC function control and/or the treatment or alleviation of a disease due to an SC function disorder, and to a use thereof. More specifically, the presen...