US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 10 for "Method and device for automatically controlling vehicle start-up" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,278, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for automatically controlling vehicle start-up" was invented by Chan Seok Choi (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), Dokon Kim (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), Jungmo Yu (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), Homin Park (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), HyeonSeob Kim (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea) and Gwangseob Kim (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and device for automatically controlling vehicle start-up based on a driver's intention and a vehicle's control state, the method for automatically controlli...