ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,875, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for avoiding blind spot of vehicle using accident history information and method thereof" was invented by Jun Hyeong Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for avoiding blind spot using accident history information, includes an image sensor configured to provide image information by acquiring a surrounding image of a host vehicle, and a vehicle controller. The vehicle controller is configured to detect, through the image sensor, an adjacent vehicle traveling adjacent to the host vehicle and a license plate of the adj...