ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,507, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for detecting curb using LiDAR sensor and recording medium storing program to execute the method" was invented by Jin Won Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Yoon Ho Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method of detecting a curb includes selecting road points from a point cloud acquired by a LiDAR sensor and detecting multiple consecutive points, having a constant first slope in a first plane viewed from above and a second slope having a constant sign in a second plane v...