ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,946, issued on April 7, was assigned to HL KLEMOVE CORP. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Driver assistance apparatus and driver assistance method" was invented by Hyunbeom Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a driver assistance apparatus including a camera having a field of view around a vehicle and configured to acquire image data with, a radar installed in the vehicle and having a sensing area around the vehicle to acquire radar data, and a controller configured to process the image data and the radar data, wherein the controller determines whether a collision with a nearby object of the vehicl...