ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,968, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle control apparatus and method" was invented by Sung Kwan Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Su Jin Han (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes one or more sensors that obtain information related to a vehicle being driven within a driving lane. The vehicle control apparatus further includes a processor that sets a lane change start target point with respect to a center of the driving lane. The processor sets at least one new lane change start target point based on a ...