ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,128, issued on June 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for predicting altitude using compressed road information" was invented by Young Kwang Kim (Ansan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for predicting altitude using compressed road information are provided. The method includes generating two-dimensional compressed road information associated with a designated reference point of each of one or more sections of a road distinguished in a predetermined manner based on two-dimensional original road information. The me...