ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,106, issued on Dec. 30.
"Vehicle control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Hyun Ju Kim (Yongin-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle control apparatus includes a sensor (e.g., light detection and ranging (LiDAR)), a communication circuit, and a processor. The processor receives a signal indicating that a vehicle has entered a specified space that is identified via a sensor, divides the specified space into a lower space and an upper space based on a vertical axis, generates a lower box corresponding to a first external object in the lower ...