ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,343, issued on July 14, was assigned to HL Klemove Corp. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Apparatus for assisting driving of vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Taehan Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein an apparatus for assisting driving of a vehicle includes a camera installed in the vehicle, having a rear field of view of the vehicle, and obtaining image data; and a controller configured to process the image data; wherein the controller is configured to identify a rear object that interferes with a driving of the vehicle based on processing the image data, control at least one of a display d...