ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,418, issued on July 14, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Dynamic automation level-based autonomous driving system and method" was invented by Kyoung Hwan An (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki Tae Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jinwoo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Myungwook Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Myungln Ji (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a dynamic automation level-based autonomous driving system and a method thereof, and more particularly, an autonomous driving system that preferentially performs maximum autonomous driving based on a dynamic au...