ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,465, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control method and vehicle thereof" was invented by Ho Jun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Woo Joong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yea Bin Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control method receives a HD map and extracts a HD road boundary and a HD lane line based on the HD map. A real-time map displaying a road driving environment of a vehicle is generated using sensor information detected by a sensor mounted on the vehicle. A real-time road boundary and a real-time ...