US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Jan. 27 for "Vehicle and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,960, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Taeheon Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jaekwang Seol (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Donghoon Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle may include a hydraulic braking device configured to hydraulically brake at least one of front and rear wheels of the vehicle, a drive motor configured to provide driving force to the at least one of the front wheels and the rear wheels, an accelerator pedal sensor detecting an operation of an acce...