US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 16 for "Method and system for preventing or mitigating rear-end collisions of a motor vehicle and potential multiple vehicle collisions" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,506, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for preventing or mitigating rear-end collisions of a motor vehicle and potential multiple vehicle collisions" was invented by Christoph Widera (Whasung-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing or mitigating rear-end collisions of a motor vehicle and potential multiple vehicle collisions includes locating, by a sensor system of the motor vehicle, an obstructing vehicle in the front of the motor vehicle located on a trajectory of the motor vehicle, the obstructing vehicle...