US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 28 for "Apparatus and method for detecting performance degradation of an autonomous vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,292, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for detecting performance degradation of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Jin Sol Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Se Jeong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jung Woo Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for detecting performance degradation of an autonomous vehicle include a storage configured to store a deep learning model used for image recognition in the autonomous vehicle and a controller configured to determine entropy of each pixel among a p...