ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,369, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CONTEC Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Marine waste disposal apparatus using satellite image" was invented by Sunghee Lee (Sejong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine waste disposal apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprise a satellite image processing unit that receives satellite images to identify and locate marine waste, and generates a map of marine waste, a waste change reasoning unit for receiving at least one or more pieces of information selected from the group consisting of tide, temperature, wind direction/speed, seawater flow, and wav...