ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,191, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA CORPORAITON (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Dong Hoon Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control apparatus includes a sensor device, a notification device, a memory, and a controller. In particular, the autonomous driving control apparatus identifies whether an autonomous driving control function for a host vehicle deteriorates, based on at least one of an operation state of the sensor device, driving information of the host vehicle, or ...