US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 15 for "Apparatus and method for controlling driving of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,438, issued on April 15, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling driving of a vehicle" was invented by Dong Hoon Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling driving of a vehicle including a sensor that detects an input amount of an accelerator pedal applied a user and includes a controller. The controller determines an erroneous actuation of the accelerator pedal based on the input amount of the accelerator pedal and determines whether to release autonomous driving according to whether the accelerator p...