ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,662, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Yang Shin Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Dong Hoon Kang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a camera that obtains a surrounding image of a vehicle, and a controller that estimates a position of a first corner point and a position of a second corner point of a trailer connected to the vehicle based on the surrounding image, estimates a position of a third corner point of the trailer using a position of the ca...