ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,114, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for controlling automatic lane change of vehicle" was invented by Jong Hyuck Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for controlling an automatic lane change of a vehicle in consideration of a speed limit are configured to obtain information about the speed limit of a road from map information including information about the speed limit of the road, and calculate a speed at which an automatic lane change function is operable based on the speed limit of th...