ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,777, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling speed of vehicle and method for the same" was invented by Sung Yoon Yeo (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Geon Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Seo Hyeon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Young Min Han (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment an apparatus for controlling a speed of a vehicle includes a communication device configured to receive at least one of a starting point of a speed trap, an end point of the speed trap, a speed limit in the speed trap, an average speed of ...