ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,730, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for controlling vehicle based on occupant's intent" was invented by Kyung Hoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sung Joon Ahn (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Tae Hun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Myung Bin Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a vehicle includes: an occupant gaze recognition unit to recognize a gaze of an occupant in the vehicle; a point of interest determination unit to determine the point of interest among an external object visible through a side window of the vehicle based on th...