US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 30 for "Vehicle control apparatus and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,896, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Bon Hyeok Ku (Siheung-si, South Korea), Chang Seob Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Young Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes an input device, a sensor device, a memory, and a controller. The vehicle control apparatus identifies state information of a tailgate of a host vehicle using the sensor device and determines whether a specified condition about loss of the state information is met wh...