US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 2 for "Autonomous driving control apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,541, issued on June 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Autonomous driving control apparatus and method" was invented by Eun Ji Jun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Byeong Wook Jeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Hoon Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Ki Sang Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous driving control apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor identifies first input information including at least one of a characteristic of a road, event information of the road, or any combination thereo...