ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,726, issued on June 30, was assigned to THINKWARE Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus, electronic device, computer program and computer-readable recording medium for detecting lane marking based on vehicle image" was invented by Shin Hyoung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for detecting a lane marking using a processor including acquiring a drive image captured by an image capturing device of a vehicle which is running, detecting an edge corresponding to a lane marking from the acquired drive image and generating an edge image based on the detected edge, detectin...