US Patent Issued to PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION on May 12 for "Method for estimating mass of microplastics by using fluorescent staining" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,078, issued on May 12, was assigned to PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Busan, South Korea).

"Method for estimating mass of microplastics by using fluorescent staining" was invented by Min June Yang (Busan, South Korea), Su Hyeon Park (Busan, South Korea) and Tae Jung Ha (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a method for estimating the mass of microplastics by using fluorescent staining. The method may include staining microplastic samples by using a Nile red solution, and capturing a fluorescent image of each of the stained microplastic samples after classifying the stai...