US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 1 for "Vehicle and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,540, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Seunghyun Woo (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Yul Woo (Seoul, South Korea), Rowoon An (Seoul, South Korea) and Soobin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a vehicle includes a communication module, a display module, an image sensor configured to acquire a front image of the vehicle and a controller configured to determine that the vehicle enters a predetermined range of a destination based on a global positioning system (GPS) signal r...