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Seems interesting that there appears to have been a patent application for LK-99 (https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20230030188A/en?oq=WO2023027536A1 https://
by antimatter15 3y ago
Seems interesting that there appears to have been a patent application for LK-99 (https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20230030188A/en?oq=WO2023027536A1 https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20230030188A/en?oq=WO202...) filed two years ago in August 2021 (a year earlier than the article suggests).
If true, it seems wild to sit on this kind of discovery for over two years.
Update: Seems like there might be even more history given the name LK-99 apparently comes from the names of its discoverers Dr. Lee and Dr. Kim, and the year of its discovery, 1999 (https://kr.linkedin.com/in/ji-hoon-kim-03508b80 https://kr.linkedin.com/in/ji-hoon-kim-03508b80).
- yreg 3y agoNaive question: is that the original content of the application from 2021, or could it have been updated later? Is it the same material as LK-99 in the published paper?
- nazgulnarsil 3y agoquick googling appears to indicate that it was produced in trace amounts as a consequence of other experiments at that time and only was investigated in and of itself in larger amounts more recently? Awaiting more info from better informed people.