US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 23 for "Apparatus and method for lane following assist" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,115, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for lane following assist" was invented by Hyok Jin Chong (Seongnam-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus for lane following assist includes a reference position setting unit configured to set a reference position which is determined to be deviated to one side within a predetermined range from a center of a lane based on a driving tendency of a driver as a new reference position for the lane keeping assist, a deviation determining unit configured to determine whether the vehic...