ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,099, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for vehicle control" was invented by Sunghwa Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Ho Young Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system for driving stabilization on a low-friction road includes a driving information detector configured to detect a wheel speed of a vehicle during driving of the vehicle. The vehicle control system also includes a transmission management system (TMS) configured to operate a maximum shift stage limit logic and a shift speed reli...