ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,164, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Object estimation apparatus and method" was invented by Hyerin Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Junsik An (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein object estimation apparatus and method. The object estimation apparatus according to an example of the disclosure includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the object estimation apparatus to recognize one or more key points set in one or more objects included in an image of an object photographed ...