US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 24 for "Apparatus and method for recognizing high-elevation structure using LiDAR sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,363, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for recognizing high-elevation structure using LiDAR sensor" 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: "An apparatus and a method for recognizing a high-elevation structure using a LiDAR sensor are provided. The apparatus includes an object-sensing unit configured to output a point cloud, acquired by sensing an object, as LiDAR data, a point-extracting unit configured to extract points associated with a high-elevation ...