ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,983, issued on Nov. 18.
"Autonomous vehicle control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Rosali Sun Pyun (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Woo Jin Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Seo Hyung Cheon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ki Seok Seong (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Eun Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Min Sang Yu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle control apparatus may control autonomous driving of a driving vehicle based on monitoring a plurality of surrounding vehicles. The autonomous vehicle control apparatus may monitor a plurality of surrounding vehicles located around the driving vehi...