ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,521, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Autonomous driving control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Tae Dong Oh (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control apparatus includes a sensor device obtaining information around an autonomous vehicle and including a plurality of sensors, a memory storing information about a high definition map around the autonomous vehicle, and a controller classifying the sensors into at least one sensor set based on the information around the autonomous vehicle and the information abo...