US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MEDICOSBIOTECH on July 28 for "Composition for treating hair loss or promoting hair growth" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,159, issued on July 28, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea) and MEDICOSBIOTECH INC (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition for treating hair loss or promoting hair growth" was invented by Sang Yup Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Won Min Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Sooncheol Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hannah Chung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Deok Hyun Na (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a composition for treating hair loss or promoting hair growth which contains a silk protein, and plasma or serum components. According to the present invention,...