ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,082, issued on March 31, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for providing information for vehicle using road surface" was invented by Han Seong Yu (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for providing information for a vehicle. The device includes an object recognition module that photographs a front image of the vehicle and recognizes an object located outside the vehicle, a processor that recognizes a road surface as a road irradiation area, a sidewalk irradiation area, and a boundary area between the road irradiation area and the sidewalk irradiation ...