US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus and method for controlling steering wheel of autonomous vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,192, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling steering wheel of autonomous vehicle" was invented by Seo Hyung Cheon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jin Su Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Eun Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Min Sang Yu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Rosali Sun Pyun (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ki Seok Seong (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea), Dong Il Yang (Seoul, South Korea) and Woo Jin Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method are configured to control a steering wheel of an au...