US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for controlling parking of vehicle using LiDAR sensor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,835, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling parking of vehicle using LiDAR sensor" was invented by Dong Hun Yang (Anyang-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a vehicle is introduced. The apparatus may comprise a processor, and memory storing instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the apparatus to: receive information associated with a plurality of objects on a ground, generate cell-by-cell position information and slope information for each of the plurality of objects, ...