Patents Assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Publication number: 20240150985Abstract: Proposed is a detachable mooring system for an offshore structure, including a first tension adjuster connected to an offshore structure, and blocking a pulling chain from proceeding from an outlet of a body toward an inlet, a second tension adjuster connected to one end of the pulling chain and blocking the pulling chain from proceeding from an outlet of a body toward an inlet, a mooring chain having a first longitudinal end connected to one surface of the second tension adjuster body and having a second longitudinal end connected to an anchor on the seabed, a first lead rope having one longitudinal end connected to one end of the pulling chain discharged out through the first tension adjuster outlet, and a second lead rope having one longitudinal end connected to the second tension adjuster body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, KOMS INC., DHMC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kang Su LEE, Hong Gun SUNG, Byoung Jae PARK, Jang Jin KIM, Hyun Kook KIM, Chang Hwan SEO, Kyung Seok LEE, Yoon Yong PARK
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Publication number: 20240140561Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for acquiring location information of an observation buoy reflecting influence of an ocean current and a method for assessing damage risk relating to spilled oil dispersion of a sunken ship by using same location information. At least one small observation buoy is floated on a target sea area, and a relay buoy collects location information from the observation buoy and predicts ocean current distribution of the target sea area on the basis of the collected information; and the predicted ocean current distribution is applied to a step of predicting spilled oil dispersion in a surrounding sea area so that damage risk relating to spilled oil dispersion of a sunken ship is precisely assessable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Moonjin Lee, Tae Sung Kim, Yong Myung Kim
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Publication number: 20240147522Abstract: A ship-centric direct communication system and an operation method thereof are proposed. The system includes a data transmission device configured to transmit, to a data reception device through a link channel, a transmission frame composed of a plurality of slots generated according to slot time, a plurality of pilots provided for channel estimation and arranged at respective specific positions in each of the plurality of slots according to a pilot transmission period, and data symbols arranged between each of the plurality of pilots, and the data reception device configured to perform channel compensation for data present between the plurality of pilots by using the plurality of pilots for each of the plurality of slots of the transmission frame when the transmission frame is received from the data transmission device and performing linear interpolation after the channel estimation in a frequency domain, and convert channel-compensated signals back into time domain symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Woo Seong SHIM, Bu Young KIM
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Publication number: 20240136695Abstract: In order to solve the problems of a conventional flat surface wave generator which has limitations on being applied to a curved structure due to more than a certain required thickness of a dielectric material, proposed are a flexible surface wave generator and system and method for surface wave communication using the same where the flexible surface wave generator is bendable by removing a third dielectric material and by making a first and a second dielectric material thin and at the same time reaches communication performance applicable to the ISM band by changing a pattern of a surface wave generation member and by forming a slit in a radiator material, so it is possible to easily establish a surface wave communication system even in environments where a conventional flat surface wave generator is difficult to be applied by being tightly attached to the surface of a metal medium with curvature.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Sunny Wave Tech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woo Seong SHIM, Bu Young KIM, Jin Woo KONG
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Publication number: 20240137095Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic switching communication method including: obtaining LTE communication state information of a main communication module for communicating with outside through a directional antenna and a sub-communication module for communicating with the outside through a directional antenna; registering the LTE communication state information of the main communication module and the sub-communication module in a routing table; determining whether the main communication module and the sub-communication module are capable of performing LTE communication; and comparing with pre-specified communication quality coefficients of the main communication module and the sub-communication module to adjust a routing path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: Ubitech Co., Ltd., Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Nahk Ju JEONG, Jong Kyoun SEO, Woo Seong SHIM, Bu Young KIM
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Patent number: 11878984Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds derived from marine actinomycetes Streptomyces, and the new compound according to the present invention has an inhibitory effect of NO production on BV-2 microglia stimulated with LPS, and thus can be utilized for the prevention and treatment of neuroinflammatory diseases.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hee Jae Shin, Byeoung Kyu Choi, Hwa Sun Lee, Hyi Seung Lee, Yeon Ju Lee, Jong Seok Lee, Ji Hoon Lee
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Publication number: 20230396196Abstract: Provided, according to one embodiment, is a method for determining a current of an electric motor or a generator, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring characteristics of a filter for eliminating noise occurring in a process for determining a current of an electric motor or a generator; determining a time delay caused by the filter, on the basis of a change in a phase indicating the characteristics of the filter, the change resulting from a change in an operating frequency of the electric motor or the generator; and determining the current of the electric motor or the generator by compensating the time delay.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: So Young SUNG, Hee Jin KANG, Hyung Won SHIM, Youngshik KIM, Yunho KIM, Jang Pyo HONG
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Patent number: 11830248Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing hyperspectral data for identifying a marine object including configuring a learning dataset for identifying a marine object using hyperspectral data; analyzing the dataset using an analysis algorithm; managing pixels constituting the object using the analysis result; and constructing learning data using pixel data. According to the present invention, according to the accumulation of the hyperspectral data, it is possible to learn and relearn a hyperspectral data-based marine object recognition model that recognizes marine objects shown as noise in machine learning clustering.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Dongmin Seo, Sangwoo Oh
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Publication number: 20230287073Abstract: A thermally stable polypeptide having FGF7 activity is provided. The polypeptide is a thermally stable polypeptide having FGF7 activity, wherein, in SEQ ID NO: 1, a 120th alanine (A) is substituted with cysteine (C), one including at least one substitution selected from substitution of a 126th lysine (K) with aspartic acid (D) and a 178th lysine (K) with glutamic acid (E) or aspartic acid (D) forms a salt bridge with a 175th arginine (R), and a 133rd cysteine (C) and a 137th cysteine (C) are disulfide bonded.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicants: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Osong Medical Innovation FoundationInventors: Jung-Hyun LEE, Hyung-Soon YIM, Young Jun AN, Kyeong Won LEE, Ye Eun JEONG, Kiweon CHA, Won Kyu LEE
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Patent number: 11746955Abstract: A support system for a connection unit for connecting an inner tank and an outer tank of a cryogenic fluid storage tank includes: an inner support formed to surround a part of the connection unit; a head coupled to the inner circumferential surface of a first end portion of the inner support, and formed to comes in contact with an end portion of the connection unit when the connection unit is coupled to the inner support; and an outer support formed to surround the inner support and having a first end portion connected to a second end portion of the inner support, wherein a second end portion of the outer support comes in contact with the inner tank or the outer tank.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: HYLIUM INDUSTRIES, INC., KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGYInventors: Do Hyung Kim, Stepien Piotr, Soo Yong Song, Dong Yeong Jeong, Dong Hee Hong, Seo Young Kim, Hyun Suk Kim, Hyun Sung Kim, Byoung Jae Park
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Patent number: 11715286Abstract: Disclosed is a method for recognizing a marine object based on hyperspectral data including collecting target hyperspectral data; preprocessing the target hyperspectral data; and detecting and identifying an object included in the target hyperspectral data based on a marine object detection and identification model, trained through learning of the detection and identification of the marine object. According to the present invention, the preprocessing and processing of the hyperspectral data collected in real time according to a communication state may be performed in the sky or on the ground.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Dongmin Seo, Sangwoo Oh
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Patent number: 11699007Abstract: Provided is a replay system of ship collision accidents using a free running model test including a ship collision replay simulation system configured to replay the ship collision accidents by receiving a navigation trajectory of the ship collision accidents; a free running model system configured to perform a free running model test of the collision accident ship using a free running model ship; and a free running control system configured to remotely perform the free running model test, in which the replay of the ship collision accidents is performed by simultaneously performing a simulation in the ship collision replay simulation system and a free running model test in the free running model system.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Nam-Sun Son, Han-Sol Park, Chun-Seon Pyo
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Publication number: 20230194444Abstract: An X-ray backscatter imaging system for precise searching for container hazardous cargo, includes: an X-ray generator configured to irradiate X-rays toward a search target container; and a cylinder-type scattering X-ray detection collimator configured to allow only scattering X-rays generated on a specific layer of the search target container among the X-rays irradiated from the X-ray generator to pass through, and X-rays scattering on a specific layer is measured by adjusting angles of collimators based on a layer to be measured, so that a search for hazardous cargo by layer of the container can be performed precisely.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jongwon PARK, Chang Hwy LIM, Youngchol CHOI, Jeonghee LEE
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Patent number: 11608366Abstract: A recombinant vector according to an embodiment of the present invention may produce fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) having enhanced solubility. The synonymous codon substitution variant fibroblast growth factor 19 (scvhFGF19) and chaperone ?ssDsbC may be simultaneously and independently expressed in a host cell into which the recombinant vector is introduced, thereby it is possible to overexpress the fibroblast growth factor 19 in a soluble state.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Geun Joong Kim, Hye Ji Choi, Dae Eun Cheong, Su Kyoung Yoo, Dong Hyun Lee, Jae Hong Park, Jung Hyun Lee, Hyung Soon Yim, Young Jun An, Kyeong Won Lee
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Patent number: 11585793Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a kit and method for testing harmful heavy metals onsite, which can determine the presence or absence of harmful heavy metals and the degree of contamination with harmful heavy metals dissolved in water or contained in sediment, soil, deep-sea mining tailings and the like. The kit includes a receiving member and a diagnostic solution containing a biosurfactant, which is accommodated in the receiving member and undergoes an ion exchange reaction with a liquid including harmful heavy metals or a solid sample from which harmful heavy metals are leached in a liquid phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Kyoungrean Kim, Aleum Lee
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Patent number: 11557379Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for predicting the dispersion of hazardous and noxious substances and, more specifically, provides an apparatus and a method for predicting the dispersion of hazardous and noxious substances, the method: checking the components of the hazardous and noxious substances having leaked into the ocean, so as to classify the hazardous and noxious substances into a corresponding classification set among twelve classification sets by means of at least one of vapor pressure, the degradation in water, or density; dividing the classification sets, in which the hazardous and noxious substances are classified, into one dispersion model among an air dispersion model, a seawater dispersion model, and an air/seawater dispersion model according to the dispersion characteristics thereof; acquiring, from a weather center server, the state information of a sea area, which is set to be different according to the divided dispersion models; and predicting a danger radius forType: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Moon Jin Lee, Sang Woo Oh, Ho-Jin Hwang
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Patent number: 11526981Abstract: The present invention relates to an ecotoxicity evaluation analysis device installed with a microalgae image analysis program therein for analyzing the microalgae 1 and evaluating and analyzing ecotoxicity, the device comprising: a complementary metal oxide semiconductor unit 10 having an arranging part 15 on the top for positioning the microalgae 1 and installed with a microalgae image analysis program therein for photographing a microscopic image and a shadow image of the microalgae 1 and analyzing the images; and a light emitting diode unit 20 for irradiating a light source to the microalgae 1 located in the arranging part 15 of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor unit 10.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION, SE-JONG CAMPUSInventors: Sang-Woo Oh, Moon-Jin Lee, Sungkyu Seo, Dongmin Seo, Sanghoon Shin
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Patent number: 11434217Abstract: The present invention can synthesize lobaric acid and four analogues thereof, which are five phenolic lichen metabolites isolated from an extract of the Antarctic lichen Stereocaulon alpinum and selectively inhibit PTP1B, by a simple, economic and efficient chemical synthesis method.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Joung Han Yim, Il-Chan Kim, Se Jong Han, Ui Joung Youn, Hong Kum Lee, Jun Hyuck Lee, Tai Kyoung Kim, Kwon Joo Yeo
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Patent number: 11396351Abstract: A platform for a semi-submersible floating type offshore structure according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a main body which is installed on the sea and has an arrangement structure in which a plurality of pontoons is combined to form a plurality of polygonal shapes; and a protrusion member connecting unit which extends from each corner of the main body and connects a protrusion member outwardly protruding from the main body to the main body.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignees: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, VL OFFSHORE, LLCInventors: Key Yong Hong, Kang Su Lee, Kyong Hwan Kim, Jong Su Choi, Se Wan Park, Sung Youn Boo, Steffen A. Shelley, Dae Jun Kim
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Patent number: 11286273Abstract: Disclosed are a novel rhamnolipid compound, an optical isomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in the present disclosure. The novel rhamnolipid compound, the optical isomer thereof, or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof selectively exhibits cytotoxicity to human cancer cell lines, thereby inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, and thus has particularly excellent preventive or therapeutic effects against the above-mentioned types of cancers.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hee Jae Shin, Byeoung Kyu Choi, Hwa Sun Lee, Hyi Seung Lee, Yeon Ju Lee, Jong Seok Lee, Ji Hoon Lee, Chan Hong Park