ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,366, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Road surface condition estimation apparatus" was invented by Jun Han Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Ik Jin Um (Busan, South Korea), Ji Hun Byun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Man Dong Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jung Ho Park (Incheon, South Korea), Jin Soo Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chan Uk Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Won Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuk Ju Shon (Seoul, South Korea) and Kun Soo Huh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S...