ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,204, issued on June 10, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Population and contamination estimation method for severe accidents in nuclear power plants" was invented by Moosung Jae (Seoul, South Korea), Byeongmun An (Seoul, South Korea) and Ye In Seo (Namyangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a population and contamination estimation method for severe accidents in nuclear power plants. The population estimation method performed by a population estimation device according to an embodiment may include storing location information of ...