US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, HYUNDAI AUTOEVER on Sept. 16 for "Autonomous driving control apparatus and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,526, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and HYUNDAI AUTOEVER CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Je Hyung Byun (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seung Jun Oh (Seogwipo-si, South Korea) and Bong Ju Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control apparatus requests information associated with a plurality of parts of an autonomous vehicle from an external electronic device and calculates a fault rate for each of the plurality of parts using the information associa...