US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on May 6 for "System and method for controlling switching to manual driving mode of autonomous vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,244, issued on May 6, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for controlling switching to manual driving mode of autonomous vehicle" was invented by Myung Ki Yeom (Incheon, South Korea) and In Su Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment system for controlling switching to a manual driving mode of an autonomous vehicle includes a steering controller configured to determine whether a steering angle is changed according to operation of a steering wheel by a driver, a braking controller configured to apply braking torque to a brakin...