ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,088, issued on April 8, was assigned to Vueron Technology Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for detecting crosswalk using Lidar sensor and crosswalk detection device for performing the method" was invented by Changhwan Chun (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a crosswalk using a crosswalk detection device is provided. The method includes acquiring point data around a lidar sensor from the lidar sensor, detecting one or more crosswalk points among a plurality of points included in the point data based on intensities of the plurality of points; and detect...