ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,416, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for driving control based on boarding congestion and a vehicle using the same" was invented by Jung Wan Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for driving control based on boarding congestion and a vehicle using the same include generating congestion information based on passenger number information of a vehicle, constructing driving limit information based on the congestion information and driving state information, and setting driving control information applied to operate the v...