US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for autonomous parking assistance considering an available rear parking space" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,006, issued on July 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for autonomous parking assistance considering an available rear parking space" was invented by Minchul Kang (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Inmook Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Taejin Jang (Incheon, South Korea) and Junho Yang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for providing autonomous parking assistance by considering a rear parking space being vacated is provided. The apparatus for autonomous parking assistance includes a range setting unit for determining...