US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus and method for controlling a slippage rate of a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,997, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling a slippage rate of a vehicle" was invented by Woon Ki Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a slippage rate of a vehicle includes: a vehicle information receiver configured to receive off-road driving information of the vehicle, a target slippage rate estimation unit configured to estimate a target slippage rate value, a wheel slippage rate section corresponding to a maximum traction coefficient, using the off-road driving informati...