ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,914, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for collision avoidance or impact force reduction" was invented by Kang Hee Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a vehicle control method for collision avoidance or impact force reduction. The method may include: initiating steering control, differential braking control, or differential acceleration control of a subject vehicle depending on a yaw rate value after a collision with a following vehicle; and stopping the control depending on the yaw rate value after execution of the contro...