ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,474, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of deriving quality improvement requirements" was invented by Su Min Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Eun Byun (Seoul, South Korea), Kuk Jin Bae (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Yun Jeong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Eun Sun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Min Je Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Jin Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Ju Yeon Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ji Min Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Min Ju Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of deriving quality ...