ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,202, issued on June 16, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sterilization module and opening/closing 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 (Ulju-gun, South Korea) and Jung Won Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opening/closing module according to the present invention comprises a middle door part having a curved shape that is located at an entrance of a sterilization module to separate, from the outside, the sterilization module that provides a sterilization space for ...