ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,689, issued on June 23, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Promoter and method for producing desired substance using same" was invented by Byoung Hoon Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Sook Chang (Seoul, South Korea), Seon Hye Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Hye Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Hyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungrim Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyung Joon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a novel promoter and a method for producing a desired substance using the same."

The patent was filed on Sept. 1, 2020, under Application No. 17/639,765. ...