ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,402, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Polypeptide specific for mucin 1 and use thereof" was invented by Ji Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hae Youn Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yoon Aa Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Gwan Yi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jungwon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Areum Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Saem Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Eu Rim Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyubong Na (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Jeong Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Ji Jeun (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyuhong Choe (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyoju Yi (Daejeon, South Korea), Hee Jung Yang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung Woong Jang (Daejeon, South Korea)...