At 6:30 pm on the 24th KAIST classroom for Advanced Intellectual Property Strategy Program (AIP) in KAIST Sejong campus in Sejong-si. Student Seong-chang Jeong (Director of Intellectual Property and Innovative Ecosystem Institute) passing the classroom looked brighter. When the students passed the green gate installed at the entrance of the classroom to attend a lecture disinfectant spurted out from the holes in the pillars both sides.

“I wanted younger students of our school to study without worrying about COVID-19.”

This gate was donated lately by Seong-myeon Song alumnus of KAIST AIP and the CEO of PushPull System. CEO Song has released preventative measure ‘ZeroGate’ to prevent any possibility of virus infection that can be caused from clothes or shoes that contain droplet infection from cough sneeze or conversation with COVID-19 infectees.

CEO Song said “ZeroGate is optimized for prevention of epidemics in restaurants houses buildings event halls classrooms or public use facilities as well as subways or bus where many and unspecified persons go in and out” and added “I wanted to install this gate at the KAIST classroom so that our students can study without worry about COVID-19.” Also CEO Song mentioned “The knowledge I have learned from KAIST AIP classes helped me a lot during the development process” and “I am glad that I can repay the school’s kindness even though it is just a small thing.”

Jin-ha Park the member of steering committee mentioned “An enterpriser who completed AIP course donated the product developed by using the intellectual property knowledge from the class to the school” and added “I hope that AIP would play main role cultivating people of talent in the intellectual property field not only in the field of anti-epidemic measures but also in every domestic industry demanding.”

PushPull System announced that ZeroGate is made up to disinfect whole body in a short time when visitor enters the gate. As a person approaches to the gate within 1m the infrared sensor discerns the movement and automatically nebulizes mineral disinfectants which is harmless to humans through 20~24 micro spray nozzles. With ultra-fine spray method the visitors not getting soaked is one of the features. Mineral disinfectants used for this system is natural mineral and made of water solubility silica which is used for ingredients of moisturizers or food additives and harmless to humans.

The mineral disinfectants that PushPull System using for ‘ZeroGate’ have been received the proof of Safety Standard Suitability Verification from Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) and tested Clinical trial applied to human body from Korea Testing & Research Institute (KTR). In addition they received ‘COVID-19 Bactericidal Test Evaluation Report’ which is containing the content that when the disinfectants are dropped to COVID-19 virus that the Korea Zoonotic Infection Research Institute in Jeonbuk National University received from Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency 99.5% of the virus is annihilated in 30 seconds.

CEO Song said “COVID-19 virus mainly spreads through droplets but it can be infected if you touch your eyes nose and mouth with infected hands after touching clothes masks shoes doorknobs chairs tables and cups that contain droplets from infectees” and emphasized “Especially COVID-19 virus can survive for 2~3 days on the surface of objects so it is important to sterilize the possibly contaminated surface of clothes to block the spread of virus.”

KAIST Advanced Intellectual Property Strategy Program (AIP) is the one and only education course specialized in intellectual property to strengthen the intellectual property capability and cultivate the enterprise capability in Korea business industries.
