US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 21 for "Method and system of simultaneous localization and mapping based on 2D LiDAR and camera" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,638, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system of simultaneous localization and mapping based on 2D LiDAR and camera" was invented by Dong Hwan Kwak (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sanghyeon Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyuntek Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of simultaneous localization and mapping can include loading a map to which 2D feature point data stored in a memory is bound, acquiring 2D LiDAR point data from a LiDAR equipped in a mobility, acquiring 3D observation feature point data by receiving...