ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,387, issued on July 21, was assigned to HL Klemove Corp. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Vehicle control method and device" was invented by Jae Hwan Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a vehicle control technology for controlling the behavior of a vehicle by determining whether to yield to a merging vehicle and provide a vehicle control device and method comprising a target selector determining a presence of a pocket lane using precise map information, and selecting a target vehicle driving in the pocket lane, a target information producer producing information about the target vehicle ...