ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,903, issued on April 22, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle route guidance device based on predicting deviation from route" was invented by Sang Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle route guidance device is provided. The vehicle route guidance device includes a processor configured to predict a deviation point upon route guidance and a storage configured to store data and an algorithm run by the processor. The processor is configured to calculate a deviation possible score using at least one of a first score according to a duplicated l...