ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,990, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Dong Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle includes a sensor configured to acquire surrounding state data of the vehicle and internal state data of the vehicle, a communicator configured to communicate with a nearby vehicle, a side mirror having an angle that is adjustable, and a controller configured to identify whether an automatic mirror control of the vehicle is performable based on the surrounding state data,...