ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,189, issued on June 23, was assigned to SK Innovation Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for analyzing technology and device thereof" was invented by Byeong Ki Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Min Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Ky Sang Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Joon Cha (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Ha Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Han Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hyeong An (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ui Won Cheong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for analyzing technology including an information collection step of designing a metaframe structure for keywords to be analyzed, ...