ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,176, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Electric vehicle and a method for controlling the same" was invented by Jee Wook Huh (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle may include logic for drowsiness prevention via brain wave analysis of a driver. A method for controlling the electric vehicle may include determining whether a driver needs to sleep based on a result of analyzing a brain wave of the driver. The method may also include changing a destination to a sleeping area based on selection of the driver when it is determi...