ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,816, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Control apparatus for autonomous vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Hong Yeol Lim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus and method for an autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of cores, and a scheduler that schedules a plurality of tasks corresponding to each operation mode of the autonomous vehicle for each of the cores, and adjusts an execution time of a task in the each core based on a current operation mode of the autonomous vehicle."

The patent was filed on July 5,...