ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,148, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Underwater network management system and operation method thereof" was invented by Soohyun Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sooyoung Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Delphinraj Kesari (Seoul, South Korea), Eunbi Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Jinyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunho Yum (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underwater network management system includes a manager corresponding to a management station, and a plurality of agents connected to the manager and corresponding to a gateway a...