ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,114, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Complex catalyst containing imine-based ligand for polymerizing cyclic olefin-based monomer and method for preparing cyclic olefin-based polymer using same" was invented by Hyo Sun Lee (Daegu, South Korea), Hyeonuk Yeo (Daegu, South Korea), Ah Rim Jeong (Chilgok-gun, South Korea) and Kyeonghun Kim (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a complex catalyst containing an imine-based ligand for polymerizing a cyclic olefin-based monomer and a method of preparing a cyclic olefin-bas...