ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,583, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vueron Technology Co. Ltd (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method of detecting road-curb with LiDAR sensor and road-curb detecting apparatus for performing the method" was invented by Changhwan Chun (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungyong Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a road-curb that is performed by a road-curb detecting apparatus is provided. The method includes obtaining points around a lidar sensor from the lidar sensor, arranging the points in a plurality of cells into which a circular grid map is divided, and detecting the road-curb based on the points ...