ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,449, issued on March 24, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Driver assistance apparatus and method for maintaining and compensating braking torque in adaptive cruise control" was invented by Hyuntae Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance apparatus includes a front sensor installed in a vehicle and having a field of sensing in front of the vehicle and a controller configured to process data obtained by the front sensor, and the controller is configured to determine whether the vehicle is in a situation in which deceleration is required in response to the processing of the...