ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,158, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Ho Tae Seo (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling vehicle driving comprises a sensor to obtain a cluster of points, a memory storing a neural network model, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a first heading direction of a virtual box, generated from the cluster of points, by inputting the cluster into the neural network model. Based on identifying the first heading direction in one of seve...