US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Dec. 16 for "Side outer extraction system and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,556, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Side outer extraction system and method" was invented by SungHyun Park (Anyang-Si, South Korea), Sang Hwan Jun (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Jee-Hyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Eun-Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Tae-Hyun Kim (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Jin Sub Lee (Suwon-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side outer extraction method may include receiving, by at least one processor, an image, of a vehicle, preprocessed from three-dimensional (3D) data from a computer-aided design (CAD) module, detecting, using an...