ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,689, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling automatic parking" was invented by Ki Ho Lee (Yongin-Si, South Korea), Kyung Soo Ha (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea) and In Mook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for controlling automatic parking. A method may include obtaining parking line recognition information from a captured image of a target parking slot, determining angular relationships between a plurality of parking lines of the target parking slot based...