ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,675, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for brake force compensation of vehicle" was invented by Byeong-Cheol Yang (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Gwi-Chul Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Sung-In Ju (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sung-Keun Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Se-Won Chun (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling corrected target hydraulic brake force to be generated by estimating friction coefficient variation depending on a bushing degree of a brake friction material and a season change, may include: determinin...