ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,505, issued on June 10, was assigned to Vueron Technology Co. Ltd (Seoul, South Korea).

"Object shape detection apparatus and method" was invented by Seungyong Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Changhwan Chun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object shape detection method. The method includes determining an area estimated as one object from scanning information obtained by scanning around the moving object; obtaining line information of the one object; generating pattern shapes each of which one side includes at least part of the line information; and selecting a representative pattern shape of the one object corre...