ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,817, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for active and selective preventive cross-force and noise control in a vehicle" was invented by Michele Rondinone (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Daniel Kaszner (Mainz, Germany), Dominik Matheis (Hanau, Germany) and Thomas Walter (Neustadt a. d. WeinstraBe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method for active and selective preventive cross-force and noise control in a first vehicle includes determining current driving parameters of a second vehicle that will foreseeably drive by the firs...