US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on May 6 for "Method and system for supporting mold design of vehicle body panel" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,481, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for supporting mold design of vehicle body panel" was invented by Wonkang Heo (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for supporting a mold design of a vehicle body panel and a system for performing the same. A method for supporting a mold design according to an exemplary embodiment may include: generating a target depth map (a depth map), which is a 2D image, from target design data of a target vehicle body panel, which is a 3D image; inputting the t...