ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,152, issued on May 19, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling vehicle based on UWB" was invented by Jung Hun Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Hyun Ha (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Wung Jung (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of controlling a vehicle based on UWB includes receiving from at least one UWB tag, tag data which is data about a target object carrying the UWB tag; positioning for extracting dynamic information of the UWB tag using location information of a subject vehicle and the tag da...