US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus for generating u-turn path of vehicle and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,374, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for generating u-turn path of vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Sung Woo Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Su Jin Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Su Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment apparatus for generating a U-turn path of a vehicle includes a path generator provided in the vehicle and configured to determine a deflection direction and a deflection distance to avoid a collision during a U-turn process, the deflection direction and the deflection distance being ba...