ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,399, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control system and method" was invented by Jeong Hee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system includes a setting unit to sense a plurality of forward vehicles positioned ahead of a subject vehicle in a driving direction, to classify each of the forward vehicles as a far-away vehicle or a near-by vehicle, and to set each of the far-away vehicles as an interest vehicle, a receiving unit to receive braking information of each of the interest vehicles from the respective interest vehicles, and a control...