ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,838, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for tracking an object" was invented by Se Jeong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for tracking an object are disclosed. The device includes a camera for acquiring an external environment image of a vehicle and a controller. The controller extracts a detected object from the external environment image, generates an estimated object by predicting a next position of the detected object, assigns an ID to the detected object based on an intersection over ...