ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,514, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Mi Kyung Ko (Jeju-si, South Korea).

"Method for preparing cremation crystals using catalyst obtained through reduction of phosphorus in skeletal remains" was invented by Mi Kyung Ko (Jeju-si, South Korea), Se Ho Boo (Jeju-si, South Korea) and Dae Hoon Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a method of forming cremation crystals, which is specifically a method of forming cremation crystals by using H3PO4 as a catalyst in a heat treatment process of ashes, thus preventing the ashes from being damaged by volatilization and enabling the crystals to be formed more eff...