ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,210, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MOBILTECH (Seoul, South Korea).

"Visual mapping method, and computer program recorded on recording medium for executing method therefor" was invented by Jae Seung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeonsoo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a visual mapping method for generating a feature map by mapping a feature point of an image captured by a camera to point cloud data acquired by a lidar. The method may include generating a first feature map based on point cloud data obtained from a lidar and an image captured from a camera, by a data generator, and generating a ...