US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 8 for "Communication system of vehicle for detecting obstacle and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,367, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Communication system of vehicle for detecting obstacle and control method thereof" was invented by Daeyun An (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a plurality of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) transceivers; and a controller configured to control the plurality of UWB transceivers to selectively operate, based on location information of a mobile key in which the UWB function is embedded, in at least one of a first mode for communication and a second mode for detecting an obstacle."

The patent wa...