ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,227, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG CNS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea) and DaehanSteel (Busan, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing iron scraps through image segmentation" was invented by Hee Jae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Jeong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Byeong Park (Seoul, South Korea), Won Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Min Je Jwa (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Yun Nam (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for analyzing iron scraps through image segmentation is provided. The method includes receiving, by a receiving circuit, a loaded state image from a camera when iron sc...