US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES on June 17 for "Device for measuring an amount of snowfall in consideration of a weight of snowfall" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,404, issued on June 17, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES (Seogwipo-si, South Korea).

"Device for measuring an amount of snowfall in consideration of a weight of snowfall" was invented by Yu Jeong Kim (Seogwipo-si, South Korea) and Mi Eun Park (Seogwipo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a device for measuring an amount of snowfall in consideration of a weight of the snowfall, comprising: a housing; a snow depth measuring unit configured to measure a depth of the snowfall outside the housing; a snow holding container configured to hold the snowfall whose depth has been measure...