ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,904, issued on June 9, was assigned to GRADIANT BIOCONVERGENCE Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Method for preparing composition for culturing lung organoids, composition therefor, and organoid culture method using same" was invented by Ha Ram Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ah Jang (Pohang-si, South Korea), Yoo Mi Choi (Pohang-si, South Korea), Dong Gyu Hwang (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Myung Ji Kim (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a preparation method of a composition for culturing lung organoids, a composi...