US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 10 for "System and method for reducing damage from vehicle collision" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,247, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for reducing damage from vehicle collision" was invented by Myung Ki Yeom (Incheon, South Korea) and In Su Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reducing damage from a vehicle collision includes an autonomous driving controller configured to calculate a collision index indicating the possibility of collision between a host vehicle and another vehicle approaching the host vehicle and to obtain data necessary to rotate the host vehicle in a stopped state. When the coll...