US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Feb. 24 for "Autonomous driving control method and an autonomous driving vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,105, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control method and an autonomous driving vehicle" was invented by Jeong Hun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving route generation method includes under control of an autonomous driving system of the autonomous vehicle, transmitting a current location of the autonomous vehicle provided by a global positioning system to a navigation system, providing the current location to a traffic server, and receiving first traffic information related to a global route, genera...