US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for predicting a vehicle collision with a surrounding object" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,252, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for predicting a vehicle collision with a surrounding object" was invented by Jang-Ho Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Bong-Sob Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sung-Woo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for predicting a collision of a vehicle with a surrounding object around the vehicle includes: a surrounding object information detection unit configured to obtain current state inf...