ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,392, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL & MEDICAL SCIENCES (Seoul, South Korea).

"Biomarker composition for predicting prognosis of brain disease caused by microplastic exposure and method for predicting prognosis using same" was invented by Jin Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongi Kim (Chungju-si, South Korea), Javeria Zaheer (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Yong Jin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Jun Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and In Ok Ko (Yangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to: a biomarker composition for predicting the prognosis of brain disease caused by...