ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,664, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Material synthesis apparatus and method of operating the same" was invented by Dongseon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taesin Ha (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Younsuk Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jeonghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonseok Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjeong Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungkwon Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Youngchun Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyukju Kwon (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Gahee Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Bosung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunji Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsik Min (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsik Park (Hwas...