US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus for controlling platooning vehicle and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,767, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling platooning vehicle and method thereof" was invented by Tae Wan Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment platooning control apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing data and algorithms driven by the processor, wherein the algorithms, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to predict a collision with a host vehicle of a plurality of platooning vehicles caused by a vehicle entering a collision prediction area of the host vehicle during ...