US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,253, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (South, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method" was invented by Seok Youl Yang (Incheon, South Korea), Beom Jun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Min Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Rosali Sun Pyun (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a sensor configured to acquire surrounding information of the vehicle, a location acquisition device configured to acquire location information of the vehicle, and a controller configured to generate an autonom...