US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 29 for "System, method, infrastructure, and vehicle for automated valet parkinig" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,097, issued on April 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System, method, infrastructure, and vehicle for automated valet parkinig" was invented by Dong Hoon Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated valet parking system, an automated valet parking method, and an automated valet parking infrastructure, and a vehicle having an automated valet parking feature are disclosed. In particular, the vehicle can autonomously move to and park in a designated parking spot by communicating with the infrastructure. In addition, the vehicle can autonomously mov...