US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 29 for "Apparatus for controlling autonomous driving and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,135, issued on April 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling autonomous driving and method thereof" was invented by Tae Dong Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an autonomous driving control apparatus for controlling autonomous driving based on feature points of another vehicle, and a method thereof. The autonomous driving control apparatus may obtain information about a surrounding object, may extract one or more feature points corresponding to the object through the information about the surrounding object, may deter...