ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,278, issued on June 3, was assigned to HL KLEMOVE CORP. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Driver assistance system and driver assistance method" was invented by Jaekyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance system include a camera mounted on a host vehicle and having an external field of view of the host vehicle and a controller configured to process image data captured by the camera. The controller may analyze the image data to determine whether a lane splitting vehicle approaching or close to the host vehicle is present and control a steering device of the host vehicle so that the host vehicle laterally...