ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,615, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lotte Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial marble composition and artificial marble using same" was invented by Jong Chul Park (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Wooyoung Choi (Uiwang-si, South Korea) and Doo Kyo Jeong (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an artificial marble composition and an artificial marble using the same, the composition including (A) 100 parts by weight of an acrylic resin syrup, (B) 150 parts by weight to 250 parts by weight of an aluminum-based inorganic filler, (C) 8 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of a phosph...