ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,700, issued on May 26, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sterilizer" 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: "A sterilizer according to the present invention comprises: a temperature-raising module for heating a carriage introduced thereinto; a sterilization module for sterilizing the carriage transferred from the temperature-raising module; a cooling module for cooling the carriage transferred from the sterili...