ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,160, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for registering metadata of drone image" was invented by Beob Kyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Chae Deok Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Il Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Bin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ah Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Duk Kyun Woo (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Wan Ryoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Yoo Jin Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yang Jae Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su Jung Ha (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method and apparatus for r...