ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,807, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Acceleration limit apparatus and method" was invented by Do Hwa Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seong Wook Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Hui Un Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyu Ri Lee (Namyangju-si, South Korea), Sung Il Jung (Busan, South Korea), Jae Young Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jeong Eun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Bae Jeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an acceleration limit function relaxation apparatus. The apparatus may determine, based on information indicating manipul...