ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,619, issued on June 17, was assigned to Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (Busan, South Korea) and Sunny Wave Tech Co. Ltd. (Ulsan, South Korea).
"Flexible surface wave generator applicable to curved surfaces, and system and method for surface wave communication using same" was invented by Woo Seong Shim (Daejeon, South Korea), Bu Young Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Woo Kong (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to solve the problems of a conventional flat surface wave generator which has limitations on being applied to a curved structure due to more than a certain required thickness of a diel...