ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,748, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for monitoring surrounding environment of vehicle" was invented by Eun Seok Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for monitoring the surrounding environment of a vehicle includes: a plurality of detection sensors to detect an object outside the vehicle according to a frame at a predefined period; and a controller to extract a stationary object from among objects detected by the detection sensors, to map the stationary object to a grid map, to calculate an occupancy probability parameter indicativ...