US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 10 for "Method and device for managing control authority of vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,182, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for managing control authority of vehicle" was invented by Yun Sik Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for managing a control authority of a vehicle are disclosed. The method may include: based on an event in which an autonomous driving operation is not feasible, transmitting, to a first user terminal having an administrative control authority associated with the vehicle, a request message including an indication for a first user of the first user terminal to se...