ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,351, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CJ CHEILJEDANG Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lower folding device for forming dumplings" was invented by Bong Jin Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Da Woon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Se Jin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Soon Suk Bae (Asan-si, South Korea), Sang Cheol Kim (Asan-si, South Korea) and Yong Gyu Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a lower folding device for forming dumplings. The lower folding device for forming dumplings according to the present invention comprises: a dumpling skin pressing unit which includes a plurality of dumpling skin folding units that ...