US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 23 for "System and method for collecting traffic information" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,087, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for collecting traffic information" was invented by Han Shik Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for collecting traffic information includes a vehicle having at least one sensor for collecting dead reckoning (DR) information, and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver configured to receive GPS information, and a server that maps the DR information and the GPS information to a server map to generate first map matching information, and collects the first map matching inf...