ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,911, issued on April 21, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sterilization module and cart processing module" was invented by Jae Gyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Si Ho Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chun Myung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung Chul Lee (Ulsan, South Korea) and Jung Won Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterilization module according to the present invention comprises: a sterilization housing that has an inner space capable of accommodating a cart; a sterilization heat treatment machine for heat-treating the cart accommodated in the inner space of the sterilizati...