US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on July 14 for "Vehicle control apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,818, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control apparatus and method" was invented by Jung Min Cha (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes a location acquisition device that provides information on road gradients on at least one route to a destination, a sensor that obtains driving information of a towing vehicle to which a towed vehicle is connected, and a controller which is configured for determining a towable weight for each of routes found for the destination based on the information on th...