ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,979, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for processing image, vehicle having the same, and control method thereof" was invented by Hyun Sung Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus for processing an image, a vehicle having the same, and a control method thereof, including: a receiver configured to receive an image; and a controller including at least one processor configured to process the image, wherein the controller is configured to input the image to a trained feature point heat map extraction model to ...