US Patent Issued to KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 6 for "Safe landing point search device for searching for safe landing point by using contour line information with respect to terrain map, and safe landing point search method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,356, issued on May 6, was assigned to KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Safe landing point search device for searching for safe landing point by using contour line information with respect to terrain map, and safe landing point search method" was invented by Youeyun Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyochoong Bang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seongheon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safe landing point search device for searching for a safe landing point of an unmanned exploration device that lands on and explores a celestial body, includes a terrain map obtaining unit configured to obtai...