US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 25 for "Apparatus for preventing collision at intersection and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,010, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (South, South Korea).

"Apparatus for preventing collision at intersection and method thereof" was invented by Keun Jin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment apparatus for preventing a collision at an intersection includes a communication device configured to receive map information, location information, an image around a vehicle, ultrasonic sensor data, or traffic light information, a right turn prediction device configured to predict whether the vehicle will make a right turn at the intersection, based...