US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 11 for "Lane keeping apparatus and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,709, issued on March 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lane keeping apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Seung Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The prevent disclosure relates to a lane keeping control apparatus and a method thereof. An exemplary embodiment provides a lane keeping control apparatus including a processor configured to calculate a steering angle control amount for following a target path for lane keeping control while driving a vehicle, and to adjust the steering angle control amount depending on a change directionalit...