US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Aug. 4 for "Apparatus for controlling a vehicle and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,980, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling a vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Hyun Ju Kim (Yongin-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure may relate to a vehicle control apparatus and a method thereof. The vehicle control apparatus with a sensor and processor may generate a first virtual box based on sensor data and first points representing an external vehicle and protruding object and create a second virtual box from second points excluding the object portion. Validity of the second virtual box i...