US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 9 for "Sensor information fusion method and device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,380, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sensor information fusion method and device" was invented by Seong Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor information fusion method includes obtaining N sensor tracks from each of a plurality of sensors with respect to a target located around a vehicle The Method also includes calculating association costs of the N sensor tracks with respect to M reference tracks, and storing the association costs in a matrix form The method further includes calculating an arrangement of reference tracks a...