US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 9 for "System and method for inspecting vehicle lidar sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,219, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for inspecting vehicle lidar sensor" was invented by Jin Seok Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Changmo Yang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting a LIDAR sensor for correcting an error of the LIDAR sensor in a vehicle includes: a centering unit which aligns the vehicle equipped with a communication terminal to match a reference inspection position of the LIDAR sensor; screen panels miniaturized so that an uppermost end point of a LIDAR beam according to an ...