US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, on Dec. 9 for "Integrated operation apparatus for autonomous driving vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,917, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and SL Corp. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Integrated operation apparatus for autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Jae Wan Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Won Jin Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chun Nyung Heo (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea), Gwang Sun Kim (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea), Yong Woo Park (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea), Jae Hoon Jung (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea), Seok Woo Ye (Daegu, South Korea) and Mi Rae Do (Gyeongsan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated operation apparatus for an autonomous vehicle...