ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,427, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for rear cross collision warning" was invented by Eun Seok Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method with rear cross collision warning includes generating a grid map by dividing an area around a host vehicle into a plurality of cells arranged in lateral and longitudinal directions, and classifying the cells corresponding to positions where a stationary object around the host vehicle as occupied cells, determining a position of a reflective structure reflecting radar signals based on a positional relati...