US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology on June 23 for "Underwater drift tracking system based on maritime positioning platform" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,500, issued on June 23, was assigned to Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (Busan, South Korea).

"Underwater drift tracking system based on maritime positioning platform" 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: "Proposed is an underwater drift tracking system based on a maritime positioning platform. The underwater drift tracking system may include a plurality of underwater drifting objects configured to transmit sound wave signals including their own water depth information by using sound wave communicati...