US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Method for acquiring location information of observation buoy reflecting influence of ocean current and method for assessing damage risk relating to spilled oil dispersion of sunken ship by using same location information" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,509, issued on July 14, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Busan, South Korea).

"Method for acquiring location information of observation buoy reflecting influence of ocean current and method for assessing damage risk relating to spilled oil dispersion of sunken ship by using same location information" was invented by Moonjin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Sung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong Myung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for acquiring location information of an observation buoy reflecting influence of an ocean current and a me...