ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,893, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Autonomous vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Youngkee Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an autonomous vehicle and a method of controlling the same. The autonomous vehicle controller may determine a lane on which a first vehicle is currently travelling, determine a second vehicle that is ahead of the first vehicle, determine, based on receiving from a steering wheel an indication of changing a travelling direction of the first vehicle and while the first v...