US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 22 for "Electronic device and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,101, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electronic device and control method thereof" was invented by Gi Yong Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the electronic device, and a control method thereof, the at least one processor can obtain a sub-map, from the semantic map, including a candidate area in which a robot is able to be located according to a movement command, where the candidate area is within a set distance relative to a position of the target object, segment the candidate area into a plurality of cells, based on a footprint ...