ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,570, issued on June 9, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Rhizopus oligosporus strain and antimicrobial composition including the same" was invented by Hyelim Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungseok Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Hee-Su Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Eun Jung Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Jiyoung Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a Rhizopus oligosporus CJCC02-20 strain deposited with Accession No. KCCM12893P and application thereof."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2021, under Application No. 18/273,347.

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