US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle collision avoidance device and method therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,901, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle collision avoidance device and method therefor" was invented by Ho Choul Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle collision avoidance device and a method therefor are provided. The vehicle collision avoidance device includes: a camera that captures a rear side image of a vehicle; a radar that recognizes an object present at a rear side of the vehicle; and at least one processor electrically connected to the camera and the radar. The at least one processor: determines whether th...