ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,033, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling fine steering of independent steering apparatuses" was invented by Jeong Hwan Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling fine steering of independent steering apparatuses of a vehicle includes determining, by a controller, a parallel mode input; performing rotation of the independent steering apparatuses when the controller receives the parallel mode input, and determining, by the controller, a moving direction of the vehicle in response to a rotating directio...