US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Feb. 17 for "Vehicle driving control apparatus and vehicle driving control method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,417, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle driving control apparatus and vehicle driving control method" was invented by Young Jin Sung (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Hwan Park (Seoul, South Korea), Su Hong Chae (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Chan Hee Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving control apparatus includes an input device that receives an input by a driver and a controller that performs control to perform autonomous driving for a predetermined time when there is a second input by the driver to perform the autono...