ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,471, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Acceleration limit control apparatus and method" was invented by Do Hwa Kim (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Hui Un Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sung Il Jung (Busan, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be configured to determine whether to adjust an acceleration limit level associated with an acceleration limit operation for a corresponding vehicle speed range. The adjustment may be performed by using driver information acquired based on biometric information of a driver. The apparatus may be confi...