ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,873, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for estimating potential injuries from a vehicular incident" was invented by Juliette Zerick (Alpharetta, Ga.), William Cottrill (Canton, Ga.), Sheldon Meredith (Roswell, Ga.) and Ravishankar Doejode (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting injuries includes a plurality of sensors configured to generate sensor data and an apparatus having an input-output interface and a processor coupled to the input-output interface and wherein the processor is coupled to a memory, the m...