US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus and method for responding to cut-in of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,254, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for responding to cut-in of a vehicle" was invented by Yon Jun Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a host vehicle comprises a driving lane recognizer configured to determine whether a driving lane on which the host vehicle is traveling is congested or not, a neighboring vehicle detector configured to obtain vehicle information including a movement and a heading direction of at least one neighboring vehicle traveling on at least one neighbori...