US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Sept. 23 for "Autonomous driving control system and collision avoidance control method therewith" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,843, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control system and collision avoidance control method therewith" was invented by Se Jong Heo (Anyang-si, South Korea), Yeon Sik Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Jae Ahn (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Du Hyeon Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment collision avoidance control method with an autonomous driving control system includes generating a grid map by storing vehicle informat...