ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,374, 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 Chi Hong Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Dae Young Kim (Gwangmyeong-Si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device for controlling autonomous driving. For example, the device detects an event that causes a determination of whether to transfer control of a host vehicle to a user while the host vehicle operates in an autonomous driving mode, outputs a first notification based on not receiving a user response associated w...