US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Nov. 11 for "Method and system of generating local map for travel control of mobility" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,763, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system of generating local map for travel control of mobility" was invented by Dong Hwan Kwak (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sanghyeon Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyuntek Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method of generating a local map for travel control of a mobility includes loading the local map from an entire map stored in a memory, wherein the local map includes at least a portion of the entire map, acquiring a two-dimensional (2D) light detection and ranging (LiDA...