ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,904, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Braking control system and method for autonomous vehicle" was invented by Myung Ki Yeom (Whasung-Si, South Korea) and In Su Kim (Whasung-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking control system and method for an autonomous vehicle, may transmit information on surrounding vehicles monitored by autonomous traveling-related sensors of each vehicle while the autonomous vehicles are traveling to the cloud, and transmit a braking induction signal to a specific vehicle when the cloud determines that a distance wi...