US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 15 for "Vehicle and vehicle position calculation method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,587, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and vehicle position calculation method" was invented by Jihee Han (Seoul, South Korea), Junsik An (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungphil Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a vehicle and a vehicle position calculation method. The vehicle includes an image sensor. The image may acquire, using the image sensor, a video image of a target vehicle, determine, based on the video image, a set of location points of the target vehicle, project, based on the determined set of location points,...