US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for driver intent prediction" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,397, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for driver intent prediction" was invented by Sung Wook Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Kyun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method performed by a driver intent prediction apparatus for predicting a driver intent of a driver includes receiving driving environment information including lane information and trajectory information, receiving driving information, outputting a lane feature vector by inputting the lane information into a first encoder, outputtin...