US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 15 for "Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,529, issued on July 15, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle" was invented by Tae Dong Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a memory, a network interface, and a processor that determines whether the vehicle is in a bypass situation in which the vehicle has to bypass, calculates a plurality of bypass paths capable of replacing a previously set travel path in the bypass situation, evaluates the plurality of bypass paths, selects one bypass path based on the evaluation...