ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,935, issued on April 14, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea) and THE INDUSTRY & ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (IAC) (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Device for forming and counting spheroids and method for producing same, and spheroid culturing method and counting method using same" was invented by Sun Woong Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kang Moo Huh (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Hwan Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Da Eun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hye Min Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hye Eun Shim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for forming a...