US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus for determining a traffic light, system having the same and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,914, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for determining a traffic light, system having the same and method thereof" was invented by Jun Soo Kim (Whasung-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic light determining apparatus, a system including the same, and a method thereof, includes: a processor configured to obtain traffic light status information of an intersection while a vehicle is driven, and when obtaining the traffic light status information is not possible, configured to estimate the traffic light status information according to...