ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,974, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Imaging composition comprising porous silicon micro-particles" was invented by Dokyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an imaging composition including porous silicon microparticles, and more particularly, to a biological tissue imaging composition including a composite in which oxidized porous silicon microparticles and silver nanoparticles are combined. Since a biological tissue imaging agent of the present i...