US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 17 for "Vehicle passenger accident prevention system and control method for the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,635, issued on June 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle passenger accident prevention system and control method for the same" was invented by Sangweol Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hwa Sun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle passenger accident prevention system includes a vehicle operation status measurement unit that measures operation states of a vehicle and outputs corresponding signals, a driving unit to drive the vehicle, a braking unit to brake the vehicle, a FCA system that controls the operation of the driving unit and...