US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on July 14 for "Path generation system for vehicular collision avoidance and mitigation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,347, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Path generation system for vehicular collision avoidance and mitigation" was invented by Jang-Ho Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dong-Suk Kum (Daejeon, South Korea) and Joon-Hee Lim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path generation system for vehicular collision avoidance and mitigation generates a path with a lowest risk level of collision damage at the point in time at which an ego vehicle faces an imminent collision. Th...