ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,514, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for re-identifying object" was invented by Kyung Hwan Cho (Anyang-si, South Korea), Moon Sub Jin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyeon Seok Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bum Sub Ham (Seoul, South Korea), Chan Ho Eom (Seoul, South Korea) and Geon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for re-identifying an object to improve object re-identification performance using attribute informatio...