ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,396, issued on July 21, was assigned to HL KLEMOVE CORP. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method" was invented by Mincheol Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus includes a camera disposed on at least one of a front, sides, or a rear of a vehicle and configured to capture an image of at least one of the front, sides, or rear of the vehicle, and a controller configured to process image data provided from the camera, wherein the controller recognizes whether a surrounding environment of the vehicle is a low-illuminance environment, generate...