ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,349, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Drift control apparatus and method of controlling same" was invented by Jae Il Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drift control apparatus and method of controlling the same, include a sensor, a processor and a driving device. The sensor may obtain driving state information of a vehicle. The processor is configured to determine a drift state of the vehicle according to the driving state information, generate a control signal corresponding to detecting the drift state, determine a vertical load devi...