ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,110, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Smart vehicle control device and method" was invented by Sanghyun Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a smart vehicle control device including: a user input receiver receiving a user input from a user terminal through a digital key application; a vehicle input receiver receiving a vehicle input input from a vehicle by a user boarding on the vehicle; a reinforcement learning model generating a vehicle control policy for vehicle driving preparation through reinforcement learning based on...