US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 2 for "Rear wheel steering control system and method for vehicles" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,951, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Rear wheel steering control system and method for vehicles" was invented by Jun Wook Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Rae Wook Chung (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear wheel steering control system and method for vehicles may gradually perform rear wheel steering at a gentle ramp-up slope, compared to a conventional rear wheel steering control system and method, for a predetermined time period when the ignition of a vehicle is turned on in the state in which a front wheel steering angle is ge...