ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,323, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for extracting outline of building in vehicle and vehicle thereof" was invented by Mi Rim Noh (Jeonju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object outline extracting method for a vehicle includes: as light detection and ranging (lidar) data is received, determining a reference point based on positions of points in global quadrants generated based on the vehicle and local quadrants generated based on a cluster box of an object, and detecting the object; extracting representative points of the points and ...