[antimatter15]

Seems interesting that there appears to have been a patent application for LK-99 (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).

[nazgulnarsil]

quick 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.

[yreg]

Naive 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?