ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,398, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Kyeongyeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Joohyeok Park (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein a vehicle and a method of controlling the same. The vehicle includes a front camera photographing a direction of travel of the vehicle, a brake controller configured to control a braking device to stop the vehicle, and a main controller configured to control the brake controller to stop the vehicle in response to a pedestrian traffic l...