US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 21 for "Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,359, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle" was invented by Ji Hye Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seon Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyung Gyu Ra (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeong Min Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Seok Gyu Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yong Ho Shin (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a communication device that communicates with an authentication device of the vehicle, and a processor that searches for the authentication d...