ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,397, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus, storage medium, and vehicle for preventing blind spot collision" was invented by Hyun Chan Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preventing a blind spot collision includes recognizing a reflector installed on a road using a front camera, determining whether at least one other vehicle image exists in the reflector, determining whether the at least one other vehicle is a preceding vehicle or an opposite vehicle through image analysis when the at least one other vehicle image exists in the reflector, gene...