ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,687, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Traffic speed prediction device and method therefor" was invented by Nam Hyuk Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic speed prediction apparatus may include: a communication device configured to receive probe data from a probe vehicle driving on a road; a storage configured to store data and algorithms for predicting a traffic speed; and at least one processor electrically connected to the communication device and the storage. The processor may be configured to predict the traffic speed on the r...