US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 8 for "Apparatus and method for tracking an object using a LiDAR sensor and a recording medium storing a program to execute the method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,865, issued on July 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for tracking an object using a LiDAR sensor and a recording medium storing a program to execute the method" was invented by Nam Gyun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Mu Gwan Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of tracking an object using a LiDAR sensor includes: acquiring a point cloud using each of LiDAR sensors and clustering the point cloud. The clustering includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) grid map using the point cloud acquired by each of the LiDAR se...