US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 11 for "Apparatus and method for controlling aerial vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,859, issued on March 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling aerial vehicle" was invented by Hyun Jee Ryu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kyu Nam Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Chang Hyun Sung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jun Young Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an apparatus and method for controlling an aerial vehicle. The apparatus includes a camera that obtains an terrain image during flight, a sensor that obtains scan information of a landing point of the aerial vehicle, and a controller that estimate...