ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,412, issued on July 28, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for determining sensor integrity using signals from an adjacent sensor" was invented by Chan Mi Seo (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Hyeon Jeong Jeon (Hanam-si, South Korea), Seung Hoon Jeon (Incheon, South Korea) and Dong Hyuk Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining integrity of a sensor includes a signal transmission unit configured to sequentially operate each of a plurality of ultrasonic sensors mounted on a vehicle to generate respective output signal...