US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on May 27 for "Method for controlling secondary collision avoidance of vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,928, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for controlling secondary collision avoidance of vehicle" was invented by In Su Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Myung Ki Yeom (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a secondary collision avoidance of a vehicle, includes, while an autonomous vehicle is stopped, identifying the positions of another vehicle and an obstacle around the vehicle in advance, and when a side collision occurs by another vehicle, controlling, by an autonomous driving controller, a driving torque and a ...