ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,108, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Geon Hyeong Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a vehicle control device including at least one sensor, a controller, and memory. The vehicle control device acquires, using the at least one sensor, information about at least one of: a lane in which the vehicle is traveling, or a guardrail adjacent to the vehicle, determines, based on the information, whether a travel direction of the vehicle corresponds to at least one of the lan...