ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,386, issued on March 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Object recognition apparatus for an autonomous vehicle and an object recognition method therefor" was invented by Jong Hyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object recognition apparatus and method for an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. The object recognition apparatus includes a processor and storage. The processor: trains a first network model based on an image; corrects distortion and rotation of the image; generates at least one distorted image based on the corrected image; trains a ...