ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,823, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Prediction apparatus and method for N value using artificial intelligence and data augmentation" was invented by Kwang Myung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyuong June Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Beom Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Chan Jin Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An N-value prediction apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a hypothetical learning data augmentation unit, based on an actual N-value measured at an actual location according to the Standard Penetration Test through dr...