ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,479, issued on May 12, was assigned to Meissa Planet Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Difference detection device and method" was invented by Chan hee Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun sun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong young Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A difference detection device comprising: a data collection module configured to collect a satellite image set comprising a plurality of satellite images; a pre-processing module configured to generate a pre-processing image set by matching characteristic information of the satellite images included in the satellite image set; and a difference determination modu...