ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,105, issued on June 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Off-road driving assistance device and method" was invented by Jun Han Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Ik Jin Um (Busan, South Korea), Ji Hun Byun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Moon Joon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung Ho Park (Incheon, South Korea) and Young Ho Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-road driving assistance device may include: a receiver configured to receive driving information of a vehicle; a first controller configured to determine a stuck state probability score based on...