ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,678, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KAKAO MOBILITY CORP. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for detecting changes between heterogeneous image data for identifying disaster damage" was invented by Yoon Jo Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Hwan Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Mohammad Gholami Farkoushi (East Azarbayjan Province, Iran).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein method and apparatus for detecting changes between heterogeneous image data for identifying disaster damage.The method includes obtaining observation image data of an event occurrence region and reference image data that occurs bef...