ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,288, issued on June 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving apparatus for generating a driving path for an intersection based on a driving record, and an autonomous driving method thereof" was invented by Hee Gwon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving apparatus for generating an intersection path reflecting a driving record may include: a path generating device that generates information on a first path for driving of an autonomous vehicle at an intersection; a path comparison operating device that generates offset info...