ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,535, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Kyungnain University (Changwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for automatically fastening chemical coupler" was invented by Shibaek Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Han Sung Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea), Jooha Maeng (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngsuk Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gi Seong Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Sung Hun Jeong (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automatically fastening a chemical coupler to a connector of an automatic clean quick co...