US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method of complementing braking force of commercial vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,076, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method of complementing braking force of commercial vehicle" was invented by Joung-Ho Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Nam Woo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Gil Ho Kim (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment apparatus for complementing a braking force of a vehicle includes a driving unit configured to drive an autonomous drone, a braking complement system connected with the driving unit and configured to complement the braking force, and a controller configured to d...