ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,316, issued on May 26, was assigned to Paean Biotechnology Inc. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating myositis, comprising isolated mitochondria as active ingredient" was invented by Kyuboem Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Chun-Hyung Kim (Sejong, South Korea), Shin-Hye Yu (Daejeon, South Korea), Seo-Eun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Min Lim (Incheon, South Korea), Hahnsun Jung (Gunpo-si, South Korea), Kwangmin Na (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Yoon Mi Han (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Young Son (Seoul, South Korea), Eun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Yeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yeong Wook Song (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Chul Paeng (Seoul...