US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 3 for "Autonomous vehicle, method for requesting control remotely thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,171, issued on June 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous vehicle, method for requesting control remotely thereof" was invented by Hee Gwon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Wan Jae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an autonomous vehicle and a remote control request method therefor. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides an autonomous vehicle including: a processor configured to determine whether the autonomous vehicle is in a state in which remote control is enabled to be performed when the ...