US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Aug. 12 for "Platooning controller based on driver state, system including the same, and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,381, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Platooning controller based on driver state, system including the same, and method thereof" was invented by Kyeong Eun Kim (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platooning controller includes a processor configured to perform platooning control based on a driver state and to determine a platooning driver emergency assist (DEA) mode based on a careless driving state or a drowsy driving state of a driver, and a memory configured to store data and an algorithm to be executed by the processor to perfor...