ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,574, issued on April 21, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Transition metal compound, method for preparing the same, and catalyst composition comprising the same" was invented by Byung Seok Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Minyoung Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Insun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seok Hwan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Donghyeon Gwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Yoonchul Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seyoung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transition metal compound that exhibits high activity and high comonomer incorporation in olefin polymerization and can be used for pr...