US Patent Issued to NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for estimating size of damage in the disaster affected areas" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,656, issued on March 25, was assigned to NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for estimating size of damage in the disaster affected areas" was invented by Seong Sam Kim (Ulsan, South Korea), Dong Yoon Shin (Ulsan, South Korea) and Cheol Kyu Lee (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there may be provided an operation method of a server for estimating the size of damage in disaster affected areas. In this instance, the operation method of the server may include acquiring at least one first disaster image, deriving...