ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,477, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control method and vehicle control device" was invented by Sung Kwan Kim (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), Su Young Choi (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea), Sung Woo Choi (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea) and Su Jin Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed for autonomous driving of a vehicle is introduced. The method may comprise generating, based on state information of a moving object, a point in a first sampling area as a first preliminary sample point, determining, based on a sample point f...