ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,169, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for generating route and method thereof" was invented by Keun Jin Kim (Seongnam-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of generating a route includes a communication device receiving at least one of location information of a vehicle, map information, destination information, or a desired arrival time of a user, a route generator generating one or more candidate routes, based on at least one of the location information, the map information, or the destination information, a calculation devi...