ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,568, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inundation damage determination device, inundation damage determination method, and program" was invented by Kyota Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an inundation damage determination device, an inundation damage determination method, and a program for determining inundation damage of a house without disposing a sensor in advance or visiting an inundated site. An image including a water surface is acquired, a reference object, which is a reference for a height, is detected from the image, a total length and a position of the reference object ar...