ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,644, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Inspection device for vehicle and method for inspecting the vehicle" was invented by Minhoe Hur (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaesik Min (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for inspecting a vehicle is provided to inhibit side effects of vehicle inspection caused by human errors by determining whether the vehicle is defective according to relative positions of a plurality of objects in an obtained bottom image of the vehicle. The device for inspecting the vehicle includes a first camera that is co...