ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,595, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flooding prediction device, flooding prediction system, and flooding prediction method" was invented by Shingo Kuboki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a flooding prediction device, etc. that make it possible to accurately predict the occurrence of flooding of a river. A flooding prediction device comprises: at least one processor configured to acquire measurement data indicating the result of measurement based on irradiation laser light emitted and radiated onto a measurement target region including the water surface p...