ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,090, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE WAVE TALK INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Antibiotic susceptibility evaluation apparatus" was invented by Young Dug Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an antibiotic susceptibility evaluation apparatus including a sample unit including a sample and at least an antibiotic disk arranged on the sample, a light source radiating coherent light to the sample unit, an image sensor detecting transmitted light passing through the sample unit to obtain a sample image, and a controller configured to receive a first sample image, which is an image of the sample at an ...