ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,932, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Autonomous driving control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Seok Youl Yang (Incheon, South Korea), Hee Kyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Min Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Rosali Sun Pyun (Seongnam-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of controlling autonomous driving in a transition demand (TD) process during the autonomous driving and a method thereof are provided. A controller is configured to determine whether there is a section where it is impossible to operate autonomous drivin...