ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,011, issued on July 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an apparatus for controlling a vehicle, a system including the apparatus, and a method for controlling the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a reference lane calculator to calculate a reference lane based on a traveling condition of the vehicle; a target determining device to determine a target of interest based on the reference lane a...