US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 14 for "Device and method for controlling a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,405, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for controlling a vehicle" was invented by Jae Woong Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Joo Bang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Il Hwan Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Hyuk Kim (Hanam-si, South Korea) and Jeong Ki Hong (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device for controlling a vehicle. The device includes a memory and a controller. For example, the device identifies at least one score in association with a travel state of a host vehicle, identifies a final sco...