US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on July 7 for "Apparatus for controlling autonomous driving and method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,679, issued on July 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling autonomous driving and method thereof" was invented by Dong Hoon Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control apparatus may include a sensor device, a memory, and a control device. For example, the autonomous driving control apparatus identifies information related to at least one of a driving state of a host vehicle, a driving mode of the host vehicle, a driving road of the host vehicle, a behavior state of at least one other vehicle adjacent to the h...