ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,840, issued on April 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Tuning parameter determination method for tracking an object, a group density-based clustering method, an object tracking method, and an object tracking apparatus using a lidar sensor" was invented by Mu Gwan Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Nam Gyun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object-tracking apparatus using a LiDAR sensor of an embodiment includes: a LiDAR sensor configured to acquire a point cloud related to an object; a first clustering unit configured to primarily cluster the...