ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,420, issued on July 28, was assigned to Vueron Technology Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for detecting lane line based on lidar data" was invented by Jae Wook Hwang (Seoul, South Korea) and Chang Hwan Chun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a lane line based on lidar data can include detecting, by a processor, points each estimated as a lane line in a lidar data, performing, by the processor, an estimation operation of estimating parameters of a mathematical model using the detected points, and performing, by the processor, a setting operation of calculating distances between e...