US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on April 14 for "Apparatus for controlling autonomous driving and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,366, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling autonomous driving and method thereof" was invented by Kyung Joo Bang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment autonomous driving control apparatus includes a controller operatively connected to a communication device, a sensor device, and a memory storing instructions, wherein the controller is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to cause the autonomous driving control apparatus to transmit, using the communication device, a cross-check r...