ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,287, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle location calculation apparatus and vehicle location calculation method" was invented by Jonghyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Junsik An (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle location calculation apparatus includes: a model learning part configured to perform learning to output an invisible keypoint set in a model image in which each vehicle is modeled, based on a visible keypoint set in the model image; and a dataset calculation part configured to generate a dataset including a visible ke...