ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,817, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control device and control method thereof for camera view control based on surrounding environment information" was invented by Dong Cheol Jo (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle control device includes a LiDAR sensor mounted in a vehicle and configured to sense an environment surrounding the vehicle, an audio video navigation (AVN) unit mounted in the vehicle and configured to generate an event signal when a predetermined event area is sensed during driving of the vehi...