ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,380, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control apparatus for determining a road security mirror and method thereof" was invented by Sang Woo Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an autonomous driving control apparatus includes a sensor device, a memory storing at least one instruction, and a controller operatively connected with the sensor device and the memory. The at least one instruction can be configured to, when executed by the controller, cause the autonomous driving control apparatus to perfo...