US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 16 for "Control method and apparatus for vehicle in baby mode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,443, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Control method and apparatus for vehicle in baby mode" was invented by Sung Il Jung (Busan, South Korea) and Hui Un Son (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle driving control method and apparatus based on a baby mode, the method comprising sensing, using a sensing unit, sensing information, the sensing information comprising a physical value corresponding to a current driving state of a vehicle and movement information of an infant on a car seat in the vehicle, updating a drivin...