ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,586, issued on July 15, was assigned to Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Contactless location information acquisition apparatus and location information acquisition method using the same" was invented by Minyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Moo Hyun Cha (Daejeon, South Korea), Geunho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Dongwook Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hanmin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a contactless location information acquisition apparatus and a location information acquisition method using the acquisition apparatus, the acquisition apparatus includes an imaging part, ...