ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,837, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Object perception method for vehicle and object perception apparatus" was invented by Ju Hyeok Ra (Guri-si, South Korea) and Hyun Ju Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an object perception method and an object perception apparatus. An object perception method may include detecting candidate objects by using at least one sensor; determining objects from a vehicle among the candidate objects; determining preceding objects among the vehicle objects from the vehicl...