ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,157, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling a vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Jae Il Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device includes a processor and a drive motor. The processor may identify whether a host vehicle is in situation where the host vehicle is avoiding a collision, identify a first control amount and a second control amount, and adjust a front wheel control amount, or a rear wheel control amount, such that the front wheel control amount and the rear wheel control amo...